Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In doing so, they consider several factors such as ocean temperature and ice ...

Ecological reconstruction of giant rhinos and their accompanying fauna in northwest China during the Oligocene. The giant rhino, genus Paraceratherium, was a hornless, long-necked herbivore living in ...

A new study asks: What are the unique chemical and geological processes at Aix-en-Provence that preserve spiders from the Oligocene Period so exquisitely? A geologic formation near Aix-en-Provence, ...

According to highly cited conventional models, cooling and a major drop in sea levels about 34 million years ago should have led to widespread continental erosion and deposited gargantuan amounts of ...