Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

Timeline of atmospheric CO₂ evolution, faunal turnover, and topographic uplift during the Miocene, providing a contextual framework for interpreting ecological and climate model results. (A) ...

For their study, Dr. Luz María Mejía, now at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, and her colleagues focused ...

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...

The giant anaconda, one of the largest snakes in the world, has a fascinating history that dates back over 12 million years. Recent fossil evidence from Venezuela reveals that these magnificent ...

Background for a paleoecological study of the Santa Cruz Formation (late early Miocene) on the Atlantic Coast of Patagonia / Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Richard F. Kay, and M. Susana Bargo -- Tephrochronology ...