The mid-Pliocene was a global warm period, preceding the onset of Quaternary glaciations. Here we use cosmogenic nuclide dating to show that a fossiliferous terrestrial deposit that includes ...

The Pliocene isn’t a perfect crystal ball for today. For starters, scientists know why CO 2 levels are now increasing — burning of fossil fuels and other human activities (SN: 5/30/15, p. 15).

About five to four million years ago, in the early Pliocene epoch, Earth had a warm, temperate climate. The gradual cooling that followed led to the establishment of modern temperature patterns ...

The leaf waxes reveal that the Pliocene had intense monsoons during the summer, shifting the narrative of previous research that attributed wetter conditions only to winter rainfall. “Our paper ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 367, No. 1886, The Pliocene. A Vision of Earth in the Late Twenty-First Century? (Jan. 13, 2009), pp. 3-17 (15 pages) ...

Well, if you want to know how the climate-changed future will unfold, look at the past: In the Pliocene, 2.6 to 5 million years ago, carbon dioxide levels were about what they are today but with ...

Pliocene incision occurred across different tectonic and geodynamic boundaries, suggesting that a mechanism unrelated to these processes was responsible for incision.

The Pliocene is of particular interest because CO2 concentrations then were thought to have been about 400 parts per million, the highest level of the past 5 million years but a level that was ...

Environment Uncovering Pliocene landscapes in Canada’s High Arctic Researchers from the international PoLAR-FIT team are revealing a four-million-year-old forest beautifully preserved in permafrost ...

The first Pliocene marsupial fossil trackways from Australia are described. The trackways, attributed to Euowenia grata (De Vis) (Diprotodontoidea, Marsupialia), occur in the middle Pliocene Tirari ...

Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Southeastern Queensland, Australia Inferred from Stable Isotopes of Marsupial Tooth Enamel. PLoS ONE, 2013; 8 (6): e66221 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066221 ...