Across the icy edges of Earth’s northern and southern reaches, life has adapted to thrive in some of the harshest conditions.

Community members are invited to participate in free fossil exploration events happening throughout the summer in Pocatello ...

For most of their history, members of the rabbit family fit perfectly into an image of small, floppy-eared critters that were relatively small in size. However, the recent discovery of a gigantic ...

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The Pliocene epoch saw fluctuations in sea levels that would have affected ... may have also posed a significant reproductive challenge. Large animals often have fewer offspring and longer gestation ...

This fossil dates to the Pliocene Epoch in Hagerman ... forests and grasslands provided excellent habitat for a variety of animals. From fascinating, now-extinct creatures like the saber-toothed ...

During the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, when megalodons roamed the oceans ... placing it in the Middle to Late Miocene epoch when megalodons were at or near their evolutionary peak in terms of size ...

"This is particularly important during the Pliocene epoch, in which global surface temperatures and CO2 levels were higher than present and which is considered analog for current anthropogenic ...

This is the first butterfly fossil from the Early Pleistocene epoch, researchers said ... a global temperatures shifted from the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene, researchers said.