The India-Asia continental collision and the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau have long been attributed to continuous Cenozoic convergence with two generic assumptions: the ongoing India-Asia collision ...

Explore the iconic woolly mammoth, the defining species of the Cenozoic Era. From their evolution to their impact on early humans, we dive into the life and extinction of these majestic creatures and ...

More information: E. J. Rohling et al, Reconciling the Apparent Discrepancy Between Cenozoic Deep‐Sea Temperatures From Proxies and From Benthic Oxygen Isotope Deconvolution, Paleoceanography ...

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, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

Early contributors to the collection include John Clark (1936-1938), Robert W. Wilson (1938-1946), and Harold Koerner (1946-1971), who helped expand the collection of Cenozoic mammals. Clark’s primary ...

It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million ...