Homo sapiens is the only living representative of the tribe Hominini, but of course this was not always the case; our ancestors overlapped in time and space with other species throughout the Plio ...

Newly Discovered 16-Million-Year-Old Moth-Like Fossil Is First-Of-Its-Kind Researchers in Australia have unearthed a ...

This helped our team trace complex species interactions in the palaeoenvironment of McGraths Flat." University of Canberra ...

As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide vital insights into what may ...

Terwilliger VJ, Eshetu Z, Colman A, Bekele T, Gezahgne A, Fogel ML. 2008. Reconstructing palaeoenvironment from δ13C and δ15N values of soil organic matter: A calibration from arid and wetter ...

The first members of the human lineage lack many features that distinguish us from other primates. Although it has been a difficult quest, we are closer than ever to knowing the mother of us all.

The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...

The sea temperature was akin to “hot soup”, paleoenvironment researcher Paul Wignall told New Scientist, meaning there was already a lot of moisture kicking about in the air to make a monsoon.

the use of fossil plants to reconstruct paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. In the coming semesters, I will be teaching courses on paleobotany, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology. The University of ...

The new faculty will have only one department, which will offer courses on dinosaurs, paleontology, geology and paleoenvironment studies, according to the plan. The admission quota will be 30 ...

CLEVELAND—As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet’s deep past may provide vital insights into what may lie ahead. Knowledge of the natural world millions of ...