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 ...

De-extinction scientists have turned their attention to species from more 'recent' times — notably the Quaternary Period, which includes creatures such as woolly mammoths and the Tasmanian tiger ...

The story of human evolution is more intricate than ever, especially in eastern Asia during the Late Quaternary period, approximately 300,000 to 50,000 years ago. Recent fossil discoveries are ...

Quaternary is the geological period that started 2.6 million years ago, and it is defined by the alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods. Valentí Rull, researcher at Institute of Earth ...

"I feel very lucky." Twins Who Married Twins and Gave Birth to Genetic Siblings Say Their 'Quaternary Marriage' Is 'Magical' The couples also live with sons Jett (born to Brittany and Josh ...

The children are cousins but also genetic siblings known as "quaternary twins." As the parents prepare to take Jett, now about 21 months, and Jax, approximately 17 months, to the festival this ...

The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose how it dispersed from the Tibetan plateau to the Iberian Peninsula ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to ... mammal species to help us reconstruct their ...

52-64 (13 pages) ABSTRACTThis paper reviews current knowledge of sedimentation patterns in the Arctic Ocean during the pronounced climatic cycles of the last several hundred thousand years, an ...