The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing through clouds of dust and gas ...

For prehistory fans, the Miocene, with its fantastic mammal life, is an immensely attractive period. From Dryopithecus, a lineage of extinct primates that included forerunners of humans, to the ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

A giant wave of undulating gas and dust appears, per new research, to have engulfed our Solar System millions of years ago.

At first glance, the night sky appears still. But in reality, everything moves, our Solar System being no exception. As it ...

"If you shift continents or interrupt ocean currents, you get climate shifts from that, so I’m very skeptical you need anything in addition." ...

Things with feathers can be found in every corner of every ocean and in land habitats so ... much like a duck 20 million years ago, in the Miocene epoch, when birds ruled the planet.

Responsible in particular for these are uplifts and faulting since the Miocene. Exposed to epirogenetic processes ... Easterly winds carry moisture-laden air masses from the Indian Ocean to Central ...