The Meg franchise takes some liberties with its science and the Megalodon in real life was not quite the movie monster as ...

The author's work on the stratigraphy of the Pliocene deposits of East Anglia and Western Europe, and his interesting conclusions concerning the physical con ditions of the period, have been ...

Located near Swayzee, Indiana, the Pipe Creek Sinkhole, an important paleontological site, was discovered in 1996 by workers at the Pipe Creek Junior limestone quarry.

Lucy lived in a wide range of habitats from northern Ethiopia to northern Kenya. Researchers now believe she wasn't the only ...

The time period is an epoch geologists call the Pliocene, 2.6-5.3 million years ago. It was marked by temperatures that were significantly warmer than today, perhaps by 2-3 degrees globally.

But when global cooling happened toward the end of the Pliocene Epoch over two million years ago, the ocean ecology changed and megalodon did not survive. “Because megalodon went extinct around ...

Carbon dioxide levels in the Earth’s atmosphere hit nearly 420 parts per million in 2021 — a level not seen in around four million years, since the mid-Pliocene Epoch, long before our own ...

afarensis was the only hominin that lived in this region during the middle Pliocene epoch (3 million to 4 million years ago). But the discovery of a fragmentary jawbone in the Bahr el Ghazal ...