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 ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... and diversifying into many new forms. As the climate cooled and dried following the warming, forests ...