Tag Archive for 'Pliocene'

This painting shows three representatives of Hypohippus, an extinct genus of three-toed horse that lived in North America during the middle Miocene, 17 - 11 million years ago. Painting by Heinrich Harder, 1916.

Eurygnathohippus woldegabrieli: New Fossil Species of Horse Found in Ethiopia

Dec 18, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new horse species that was about the size of a small zebra and roamed eastern Africa...

Cape Washington, Antarctica (© University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography)

Study Provides Evidence for Several Global Warmings During Pliocene

Jul 22, 2013 by News Staff

According to researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, global warmings between 5 – 3 million years ago may have caused parts of the...

This image shows global surface air temperature anomalies four million years ago (A. V. Fedorov et al)

Climate Models Challenged as Scientists Identify Ancient Pool of Warm Water

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...

Pliocene Three-Toed Horse Discovered in Tibet

Apr 26, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Tao Deng of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

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