Spanning more than 66 million years, the Cenozoic Era shaped the world we live in today. From the rise of mammals to the emergence of modern humans, this era tells a story of survival, evolution, and ...

The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant ...

For more than 66 million years, Earth has been living through a remarkable chapter of history known as the Cenozoic Era. This enormous stretch of time transformed the planet after the extinction of ...

Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth experienced dramatic climate shifts—helps scientists reveal more about the ...

The Cenozoic Era has witnessed profound shifts in climate, topography and plant communities over the past 66 million years, driven by tectonic reorganisations, orbital cycles and atmospheric ...

According to a new study from an international team led by researchers, the oxygen-deficient zones that occur in the open ocean shrank in long warm periods of the past. When oxygen becomes scarce, ...

Studying changes in marine biogeographic patterns, and the factors impacting these patterns over geological time, can help scientists understand current responses­ in organisms due to human-driven ...

The two warmest time periods on Earth in the past 140 million years drove both mass extinctions and explosions in plant diversity, according to ...

Of all the topics covered so quickly in this series, the history of earth from 542 mya onward could and does fill books and constitute a chain of college classes. The Paleozoic Era spans from 542 to ...