Our climate today is actually a warm interval between ... But this warm period, called the Eocene, was followed by a long cooling trend. Between 52 and 36 million years ago, ice caps developed ...

Climate is the major factor that determines ... In the Middle to Late Eocene, North America experienced mountain building and drying trends which turned the humid subtropical forests into ...

Imagine a world where forests stretched endlessly, and strange, powerful beasts prowled the land—creatures so fierce and ...

Additionally, the late Eocene climate model used for the simulations did not include the cooling effects that ice itself ...

While climate warming has played a secondary role in the geological evolution of SPR, it is expected to be the dominant driver of future changes. The Eocene warming, likely exceeding 10 °C ...

This is a reconstruction of the early Eocene (52 million-year-old) fauna that inhabited the rainforest around a northern British Colombia lake. The tapiroid Heptodon drinks in the shallows ...