In fact, the Quaternary is often considered the "Age of Humans." Homo erectus appeared in Africa at the start of the period, and as time marched on the hominid line evolved bigger brains and ...

Today's climate change is man-made. The consensus in the climate science community is unequivocal, but in order to determine ...

Rocks, plants and ice hold valuable clues about how the planet’s climate has evolved, but deciphering them is not easy.

We are investigating the causes of variation in mammal body size during the Quaternary period by comparing ice-age mammal species from the past 750,000 years in Britain. The Quaternary is the most ...

The rear end of a fossilized tiger from the Quaternary Period was discovered at the Yangsiwan section of Salawusu's plant and faunal fossils. Over 45 kinds of fossils were found in the area ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago ... audited radiocarbon dates for ...

Since then, conditions have been warmer. This current warm phase is known as the Holocene. The Holocene and Pleistocene are part of the Quaternary Period of Earth's history.

A short film for secondary schools explaining tertiary and quaternary industries, what they are and how they fit into global economy. It covers the development of the service industries and ...

The field’s primary gas-bearing formation is the Ledong Formation of the Quaternary period, with an average burial depth of ...

When I get together with my girlfriends we talk about all kinds of things. When I started my period that's who I wanted to talk about it. They could answer a lot of questions that I had ...

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During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...