The As Duma Early Pliocene deposits sample a low-relief ... Only further evidence that more tightly associates the hominids (and other fauna) with the varied local environments will reveal ...

An assistant professor in the Krieger School's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Levin had joined scientists there investigating Pliocene-epoch hominids, precursors to modern humans. Now, ...

It should. We’re living it. But the description also matches Earth a little over 3 million years ago, in the middle of the geologic epoch known as the Pliocene. To understand how our planet ...

From the local Afar language terms deyi, meaning close, and remeda, meaning relative; thus referring to the species being a close relative of all later hominins. BRT-VP-3/37 (Fig. 1l–p), a right ...

"The continuous aridification throughout the Mio-Pliocene, with the spread of open environments, could be an important trigger on the bipedalism of hominids," the authors write. "The sabertooth ...

The Pliocene epoch, which lasted from 5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago, was a consequential time in Earth's history. The ...

His Science Perspectives article, published in the April 6 issue and titled "Reading Pliocene Bones," contends that the "way forward" is through further experimentation, integration of different ...

However, what the mid-Pliocene epoch can teach us about the future seasonal march of the East Asian summer monsoon rainband ...

found that the last time the earth’s atmosphere had a CO2 concentration as high as today’s was during the Pliocene epoch, the geological period 2.6-5.3 million years ago. CO2 emissions from ...