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3.5-Million-Year-Old Fossil from Japan Reveals Lost Lineage of Giant Salamanders

A new genus and species of cryptobranchid salamander that lived in lakes in Japan about 3.5 million years…
#EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Ajimufauna #Amphibian #climate #climatechange #Cryptobranchidae #Fossil #Giantsalamander #KyushuIsland #Limnospondylus #Limnospondylusajimuensis #Nihon #Paleoclimate #Pliocene #Salamander #TsubusagawaFormation #Vertebra
https://www.europesays.com/japan/61855/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/319950/ Meet Paranthropus: The ancient human cousin that may have made the first stone tools 2.6 million years ago | World News #Africa #Australopithecus #Ethiopia #homo #HomoHabilis #nyayanga #oldowan #Paranthropus #Pliocene #science #ThickEnamel

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

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Section 7: Polar Collapses and Thermal Inertia

In the Pliocene, the Greenland ice sheet was largely absent, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed, and sea levels rose 15 to 25 meters, carving ancient shorelines like the Orangeburg Scarp 100 kilometers inland. Modern sea levels have not yet risen 20 meters solely due to thermal inertia. While the atmosphere reacts to carbon loading in decades, massive continental ice sheets possess immense thermal mass and take centuries to melt.

#Pliocene

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Section 7: Polar Collapses and Thermal Inertia

In the Pliocene, the Greenland ice sheet was largely absent, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed, and sea levels rose 15 to 25 meters, carving ancient shorelines like the Orangeburg Scarp 100 kilometers inland. Modern sea levels have not yet risen 20 meters solely due to thermal inertia. While the atmosphere reacts to carbon loading in decades, massive continental ice sheets possess immense thermal mass and take centuries to melt.

#Pliocene

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Section 7: Polar Collapses and Thermal Inertia

In the Pliocene, the Greenland ice sheet was largely absent, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed, and sea levels rose 15 to 25 meters, carving ancient shorelines like the Orangeburg Scarp 100 kilometers inland. Modern sea levels have not yet risen 20 meters solely due to thermal inertia. While the atmosphere reacts to carbon loading in decades, massive continental ice sheets possess immense thermal mass and take centuries to melt.

#Pliocene

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Section 7: Polar Collapses and Thermal Inertia

In the Pliocene, the Greenland ice sheet was largely absent, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed, and sea levels rose 15 to 25 meters, carving ancient shorelines like the Orangeburg Scarp 100 kilometers inland. Modern sea levels have not yet risen 20 meters solely due to thermal inertia. While the atmosphere reacts to carbon loading in decades, massive continental ice sheets possess immense thermal mass and take centuries to melt.

#Pliocene

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Section 7: Polar Collapses and Thermal Inertia

In the Pliocene, the Greenland ice sheet was largely absent, the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed, and sea levels rose 15 to 25 meters, carving ancient shorelines like the Orangeburg Scarp 100 kilometers inland. Modern sea levels have not yet risen 20 meters solely due to thermal inertia. While the atmosphere reacts to carbon loading in decades, massive continental ice sheets possess immense thermal mass and take centuries to melt.

#Pliocene

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Section 6: The Faint Young Sun and Pliocene Analogs

Atmospheric physics dictates that 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, the sun was 30% dimmer, which should have frozen the planet into a solid snowball. Yet, pillow basalts prove liquid oceans existed due to a dense greenhouse gas blanket. This demonstrates that carbon dioxide is the planet's primary thermostat. During the #Pliocene epoch, CO2 levels matched modern values, keeping global temp 2.5 to 4 degrees C hotter.

https://youtu.be/FedBgcZ0OXg

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Section 6: The Faint Young Sun and Pliocene Analogs

Atmospheric physics dictates that 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, the sun was 30% dimmer, which should have frozen the planet into a solid snowball. Yet, pillow basalts prove liquid oceans existed due to a dense greenhouse gas blanket. This demonstrates that carbon dioxide is the planet's primary thermostat. During the #Pliocene epoch, CO2 levels matched modern values, keeping global temp 2.5 to 4 degrees C hotter.

https://youtu.be/FedBgcZ0OXg

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Section 6: The Faint Young Sun and Pliocene Analogs

Atmospheric physics dictates that 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, the sun was 30% dimmer, which should have frozen the planet into a solid snowball. Yet, pillow basalts prove liquid oceans existed due to a dense greenhouse gas blanket. This demonstrates that carbon dioxide is the planet's primary thermostat. During the #Pliocene epoch, CO2 levels matched modern values, keeping global temp 2.5 to 4 degrees C hotter.

https://youtu.be/FedBgcZ0OXg

12/
Section 6: The Faint Young Sun and Pliocene Analogs

Atmospheric physics dictates that 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, the sun was 30% dimmer, which should have frozen the planet into a solid snowball. Yet, pillow basalts prove liquid oceans existed due to a dense greenhouse gas blanket. This demonstrates that carbon dioxide is the planet's primary thermostat. During the #Pliocene epoch, CO2 levels matched modern values, keeping global temp 2.5 to 4 degrees C hotter.

https://youtu.be/FedBgcZ0OXg

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Section 6: The Faint Young Sun and Pliocene Analogs

Atmospheric physics dictates that 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, the sun was 30% dimmer, which should have frozen the planet into a solid snowball. Yet, pillow basalts prove liquid oceans existed due to a dense greenhouse gas blanket. This demonstrates that carbon dioxide is the planet's primary thermostat. During the #Pliocene epoch, CO2 levels matched modern values, keeping global temp 2.5 to 4 degrees C hotter.

https://youtu.be/FedBgcZ0OXg

Half-Ton Cattle Relatives Roamed Europe 4 Million Years Ago

Near-complete bovine skeletons unearthed the Early Pliocene site of Camp dels Ninots in northeastern Spain reveal that the…
#Europe #EU #Bovinae #Bovini #CampdelsNinots #cattle #Eurasia #evolution #fossil #IberianPeninsula #Parabos #Parabostigneresi #Pliocene #Spain #Tragoportacini
https://www.europesays.com/europe/61797/

Half-ton early #bovines roamed 4-million-year-old #grasslands in Europe https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ton-early-bovines-roamed-million.html

First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the #evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0340256

"The first large-sized bovines grew to up to half a ton 4 million years ago in the European Early #Pliocene, an early step toward our modern diversity of large-bodied buffalo and cattle"

Half-ton early #bovines roamed 4-million-year-old #grasslands in Europe https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ton-early-bovines-roamed-million.html

First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the #evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0340256

"The first large-sized bovines grew to up to half a ton 4 million years ago in the European Early #Pliocene, an early step toward our modern diversity of large-bodied buffalo and cattle"

Half-ton early #bovines roamed 4-million-year-old #grasslands in Europe https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ton-early-bovines-roamed-million.html

First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the #evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0340256

"The first large-sized bovines grew to up to half a ton 4 million years ago in the European Early #Pliocene, an early step toward our modern diversity of large-bodied buffalo and cattle"

Half-ton early #bovines roamed 4-million-year-old #grasslands in Europe https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ton-early-bovines-roamed-million.html

First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the #evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0340256

"The first large-sized bovines grew to up to half a ton 4 million years ago in the European Early #Pliocene, an early step toward our modern diversity of large-bodied buffalo and cattle"

https://www.europesays.com/ie/382545/ New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis #AfarRegion #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfarensis #Crocodile #Crocodylus #CrocodylusLucivenator #Éire #Ethiopia #fossil #HadarFormation #Hominid #Hominin #Human #IE #Ireland #Lucy #Pliocene #Reptile #Science

https://www.europesays.com/africa/131092/ New Fossil Crocodile from Ethiopia Lived alongside Australopithecus afarensis #AfarRegion #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfarensis #crocodile #Crocodylus #CrocodylusLucivenator #Ethiopia #Fossil #HadarFormation #Hominid #Hominin #human #Lucy #Pliocene #Reptile

#Glyptodon (lit. 'grooved or carved tooth'; from Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) 'sculptured' and ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς (odont-, odoús) 'tooth')[1] is a from the #Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago,[2] to the early #Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in South America. It is on

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sflorg/116003437911970681

This interesting #study is based on ancient lake #sediment #analyses from the #Bogotá #Basin. It proves that the existing #climatemodels about the #Pliocene were underestimated regardung tropical regions. This allows prognoses, according to which also the global warming of today may bring more heat in some #tropicalzones than expected.
See science communication article below.
© this text #StefanFWirth 2026

temperatures during the #Pliocene epoch were significantly higher than theoretical models predicted based on #ocean records.
#EarthScience #Paleoclimatology #Geochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/es02022601.html

temperatures during the #Pliocene epoch were significantly higher than theoretical models predicted based on #ocean records.
#EarthScience #Paleoclimatology #Geochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/es02022601.html

temperatures during the #Pliocene epoch were significantly higher than theoretical models predicted based on #ocean records.
#EarthScience #Paleoclimatology #Geochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/es02022601.html

temperatures during the #Pliocene epoch were significantly higher than theoretical models predicted based on #ocean records.
#EarthScience #Paleoclimatology #Geochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/es02022601.html

temperatures during the #Pliocene epoch were significantly higher than theoretical models predicted based on #ocean records.
#EarthScience #Paleoclimatology #Geochemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/es02022601.html

Se trata de un útil de la industria lítica Lomekwiense (3,3 MdA), elaborada potencialmente por el Kenyanthropus platyops. Producidos golpeando piedras grandes con rocas densas, y pesadas, que habían obtenido hasta a 100 metros de distancia. Precedió los útiles más antiguos del Olduvayense (2,6 MdA) del Homo habilis, siendo un ejemplo de que la elaboración de útiles no se restringía al género Homo. 📷Museos Nacionales de Kenia-Proyecto Arqueológico Turkana Occidental #plioceno #pliocene

Se trata de un útil de la industria lítica Lomekwiense (3,3 MdA), elaborada potencialmente por el Kenyanthropus platyops. Producidos golpeando piedras grandes con rocas densas, y pesadas, que habían obtenido hasta a 100 metros de distancia. Precedió los útiles más antiguos del Olduvayense (2,6 MdA) del Homo habilis, siendo un ejemplo de que la elaboración de útiles no se restringía al género Homo. 📷Museos Nacionales de Kenia-Proyecto Arqueológico Turkana Occidental #plioceno #pliocene

Se trata de un útil de la industria lítica Lomekwiense (3,3 MdA), elaborada potencialmente por el Kenyanthropus platyops. Producidos golpeando piedras grandes con rocas densas, y pesadas, que habían obtenido hasta a 100 metros de distancia. Precedió los útiles más antiguos del Olduvayense (2,6 MdA) del Homo habilis, siendo un ejemplo de que la elaboración de útiles no se restringía al género Homo. 📷Museos Nacionales de Kenia-Proyecto Arqueológico Turkana Occidental #plioceno #pliocene

Se trata de un útil de la industria lítica Lomekwiense (3,3 MdA), elaborada potencialmente por el Kenyanthropus platyops. Producidos golpeando piedras grandes con rocas densas, y pesadas, que habían obtenido hasta a 100 metros de distancia. Precedió los útiles más antiguos del Olduvayense (2,6 MdA) del Homo habilis, siendo un ejemplo de que la elaboración de útiles no se restringía al género Homo. 📷Museos Nacionales de Kenia-Proyecto Arqueológico Turkana Occidental #plioceno #pliocene

Se trata de un útil de la industria lítica Lomekwiense (3,3 MdA), elaborada potencialmente por el Kenyanthropus platyops. Producidos golpeando piedras grandes con rocas densas, y pesadas, que habían obtenido hasta a 100 metros de distancia. Precedió los útiles más antiguos del Olduvayense (2,6 MdA) del Homo habilis, siendo un ejemplo de que la elaboración de útiles no se restringía al género Homo. 📷Museos Nacionales de Kenia-Proyecto Arqueológico Turkana Occidental #plioceno #pliocene

Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

Stupendemys geographica es la tortuga de agua dulce más grande que ha existido, con un caparazón que supera los 2 metros de longitud y la tonelada de peso. Vivió desde el Mioceno medio al comienzo del Plioceno (9-7,2 MdA) sin competición, manteniendo una dieta omnívora que incluía animales duros, como moluscos y pequeños cocodrilos. 📷Ryan Somma #mioceno #miocene #plioceno #pliocene

https://www.europesays.com/ie/236131/ Remarkable Fossil from South Africa May Be New Species of Australopithecus: Study #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfricanus #AustralopithecusPrometheus #Éire #fossil #Hominin #Human #IE #Ireland #LittleFoot #Pliocene #Science #SouthAfrica #Sterkfontein #SterkfonteinCaves #StW573

https://www.europesays.com/ie/205520/ Two Australopithecus Species Co-Existed in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago #AfarRegion #Africa #Australopithecus #AustralopithecusAfarens #AustralopithecusDeyiremeda #BurteleFoot #diet #Éire #Ethiopia #foot #fossil #Hominin #IE #Ireland #Locomotion #Lucy #Pliocene #Science #Teeth #WoransoMille

The potential extinction of Florida's ancient scrub mint isn't just a loss for one species—it's a blow to entire ecosystems. From scrub jays to bee flies, countless creatures rely on this plant. A botanical curator explains why it matters: https://theconversation.com/plants-that-evolved-in-florida-over-millennia-now-face-extinction-and-lack-protection-233627 #climatechange #botany #pliocene

The potential extinction of Florida's ancient scrub mint isn't just a loss for one species—it's a blow to entire ecosystems. From scrub jays to bee flies, countless creatures rely on this plant. A botanical curator explains why it matters: https://theconversation.com/plants-that-evolved-in-florida-over-millennia-now-face-extinction-and-lack-protection-233627 #climatechange #botany #pliocene

The potential extinction of Florida's ancient scrub mint isn't just a loss for one species—it's a blow to entire ecosystems. From scrub jays to bee flies, countless creatures rely on this plant. A botanical curator explains why it matters: https://theconversation.com/plants-that-evolved-in-florida-over-millennia-now-face-extinction-and-lack-protection-233627 #climatechange #botany #pliocene