Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Sparse trees cast long shadows as the morning sun rises over the grassy woodland clearing. Elephants and rhinos gather ...

We analyzed the teeth and published our results in the Journal of Human Evolution. The teeth belonged to Paradolichopithecus, a large, baboon-like monkey that lived during the Pliocene epoch, between ...

Researchers have created a map of oceanic 'dead zones' that existed during the Pliocene epoch, when the Earth's climate was two to three degrees warmer than it is now. The work could provide a glimpse ...

Joshua Allan Lindal receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. University of Manitoba provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.