Introduction -- The end of the dinosaurs? -- Brave new world: the Paleocene -- Dawn of the recent: the Eocene -- The icehouse cometh: the Oligocene -- The Savanna story: the Miocene -- The world in ...

Understanding how Earth's climate has naturally fluctuated during the Holocene—the current geological epoch spanning the last 11,700 years—is crucial for contextualizing modern human-driven ...

Working out what animals that lived in the distant past looked like used to be thought impossible. But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some ...

Researchers have found that small mammal communities today are fundamentally different from even a few centuries ago, during North America’s pre-colonial past. They identified small mammal ...

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals Steve Brusatte Mariner Books, $29.99 In my opinion, the most satisfying science documentary TV series ever made was a 1970s British production called Connections ...

Mammals will run into problems much sooner due to our limited ability to resist heat, the study concludes. Our mechanisms to avoid overheating — like sweat, circulatory systems and the ability ...

Mid-Holocene dry climate in the Asian interior was associated with the poleward displacement of the westerly jet due to warm boreal summer temperatures at mid-latitudes, according to hydroclimate ...