Cenozoic era

The Neogene* encompasses two epochs, beginning with the Miocene (23.03-5.33 Mya) and followed by the Pliocene (5.33-2.58 Mya). The Pleistocene (also known as the "Ice age"), occurred 2.58 mya and ended 11.7000 years ago. It is followed by the current epoch, the Holocene, beginning eleven thousand five hundred years ago are now (2022). Both the Pleistocene and the Holocene are

Photographed in Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, USA.

In the nineteenth article, we discuss the last period of the Cenozoic Era- The Quaternary period. It is the period we currently live in and it's still ongoing.

History of Earth - Pliocene Epoch - (Cenozoic Era)

The Cenozoic Era, also known as the Age of Mammals, is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.

Mammoths had a hump on their back just behind the skull. What was the purpose of this hump?Gene analysis suggests that much like the camel, the hump on the mammoth served as a place for fat reserves, built up during the summer and used during the winter. -- Answer: To store fat for the cold winter -- #Science

Earliest cellular life on earth evolved about 3.5 billion years ago during precambrian time from protobionts/coacervates. Life then amazingly diversified through natural selection till recently. **Geological history of earth is studied by dividing it in eons, then further dividing eons in eras, era in periods, period in epochs. Life appeared in Archaeozoic eon. Multicellular life appeared during Proterozoic eon. Currently it is Phanerozoic eon, that started about 540 million years ago. The…

When Giants Roamed the Earth – 8 Prehistoric Mega Mammals

An artist’s vision of Sauropods and Iguanodons during the late Jurassic. Image taken from Wikipedia Commons here. def. Jurassic: 1. A geologic period spanning from approximately 200 to 145 million years ago. 2. A cool adjective to use in everyday life to describe something or someone ancient and/or gargantuan. For example, “My Jurassic professor doesn’t even know how to use a computer. He does all of his lectures in chalk …

Human evolution: Dryopithecus, Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Cromagnon man and Homo sapiens; differences between apes and man. evolution of man - brief idea of ancestors...