The globally warm climate of the early Pliocene gradually cooled from 4 million years ago, synchronous with decreasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In contrast, palaeoceanographic records ...

A study led by researchers from Brown University finds that rainfall patterns across northern Africa remained largely stable ...

The early-to-middle Pliocene Warm Period between ~5 and 3 million years ago (Ma) that preceded Northern Hemisphere glaciation was the most recent period of persistently warmer-than-present conditions.

Researchers compared the tooth zinc isotope signature of multiple extinct, Early Miocene sharks (20.4 to 16.0 million years ago) and Early Pliocene sharks (5.3 to 3.6 million years ago) species ...

Here we report new Early Pliocene hominid discoveries and their palaeoenvironmental context from the fossiliferous deposits of As Duma, Gona Western Margin (GWM), Afar, Ethiopia.

A huge pool of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America four million years ago suggests climate models might be too conservative in forecasting tropical changes.

Using this new method, the team compared the tooth zinc isotope signature of multiple extinct Early Miocene (20.4 to 16.0 million years ago) and Early Pliocene (5.3 to 3.6 million years ago ...

Miopetaurista species are previously documented in areas of China, France, and Germany during both the Miocene (23-5.3 million years ago) and Pliocene (5.3–2.5 million years ago) epochs.

Did early humans walk ... “Our study suggests that the retreat of forests in the late Miocene-Pliocene era around five million years ago and the more open savanna habitats were in fact not ...

An Early Pliocene North American deer: Bretzia pseudalces, its osteology, biology, and place in cervid history. The Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History. 25: 1-75.

A tooth unearthed in Spain and dating to the Pliocene is the latest evidence of a crocodile ever found in Europe and supports the idea crocs crossed over from Africa about 6.2 million years ago.