Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil species, Pluridens imelaki, from the Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits in ...

ABSTRACT: Almost coevally with worldwide impact events, immediately at the beginning of the Eocene-Oligocene Transformation (EOT), (34.0 - 33.5 Ma), the Jordanian ...

Stanford’s study reveals unexpected gaps in ocean floor sediments during the Eocene-Oligocene cooling, challenging past assumptions and providing new insights into sedimentary processes and today’s ...

A prevailing theory for many decades has held that a major cooling event, accompanied by a significant drop in sea levels, likely impacted Earth’s climate around 34 million years ago. One of the ...

"There was this gigantic river system": Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The Oligocene epoch is a transitional time period marked by the most striking climate change in the Cenozoic from greenhouse to icehouse conditions, mainly evidenced by marine records (Zachos et al., ...

Today East Asia, and in particular the Hengduan Mountains and other parts of southwestern China, hosts several of Earth's great biodiversity 'hotspots'. A biodiversity hotspot is where very large ...

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a thermal pulse of 5 to 8°C in Earth’s surface temperature that occurred within 20,000 years, about 56 million years ago, is considered a good past analog ...

1 Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India. 2 Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 3 Department of Geology, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Sri Guru Ram ...

Spinescence (a general term for the phenomena of spines, prickles, and thorns on plants) is an important functional trait shared by numerous plant families worldwide and mainly provides physical ...