The ocean is a place of mystery and wonder, filled with creatures both majestic and terrifying. While the Great White Shark ...

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 ...

Climate change dealt the final blow to these ocean titans, the same as it's doing to hundreds of species annually. As global temperatures dropped during the Pliocene epoch, about 35% of marine ...

But around the time megalodon disappeared, the oceans were changing. Sea levels rapidly fell during the Pliocene period, affecting coastal marine habitats – and depleting food sources for larger ...

Although no longer native to North America, the ancestors to today’s aerodynamic rodents likely made the most of the Early Pliocene’s warmer climate. The new findings come from an ...