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Paleontologists Stumble Across 15-Million-Year-Old Fish Fossils That Are So Well Preserved, Their Last Meals Are Intact
Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...
Nature14d
Pliocene and Pleistocene
The part you quote embodies a serious misprint. The words “distinguished by the marine Pliocene” should read “distinguished by the name Pliocene.” As I am writing further on the ...
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Golden scaleless cave fish discovered in China shows evolution in action
The discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.
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Flying squirrels the size of cats soared over prehistoric Appalachia
“There had been some uncertain reports from Florida, but the specimen of the Gray Fossil Site provided new information.” Modern Southern Appalachia was much warmer during the Pliocene ...
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Scientists look to the Miocene for clues of what we might expect from global heating caused by fossil fuels
Paleoecology, the study of past ecosystems, employs geology and the study of fossil evidence from plants ... a different epoch, the Pliocene (which took over from the Miocene and ended just ...
Nature7y
Effects of Climate Change on Primate Evolution in the Cenozoic
Dozens of fossil primate species are known from ... a geologic epoch from ~65.5 to ~55.8 million years ago Pliocene - a geologic epoch from ~5.3 to ~2.6 million years ago Pleistocene - a geologic ...