Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth experienced dramatic climate shifts—helps scientists reveal more about ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... whales in the mid- to late Paleogene. The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the ...

Credit: Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc./Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million ...

Edo Era Animals From the extensive design archives of Unsodo, Japan's sole publisher of woodblock prints, this collection showcases animals depicted by prominent Edo era artists. The animals depicted ...

Dec. 10, 2024 — Snow cover in the Sierra Nevada is expected to shrink overall as the climate warms, but avalanche frequency could remain the same or even increase at high elevations. That's bad ...

Dec. 6, 2024 — Desert ants of the Cataglyphis nodus species use the Earth's magnetic field for spatial orientation, but rely on a different component of the field than other insects. The survey ...

In turn, the extinction of the dinosaurs and several other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages with geologic time scale data ...

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...