The land bridges allow animals and ... In fact, the Quaternary is often considered the "Age of Humans." Homo erectus appeared in Africa at the start of the period, and as time marched on the ...

The Quaternary is the most recent geological period, and many of the mammal species targeted in our study are alive ... Our research will test current hypotheses to explain body size variation in ...

Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present interglacial period, from around 50,000 to 5,000 years ago ... audited radiocarbon dates for ...

Scientists have identified fossils of snow leopards. The discovery has allowed them to trace the evolutionary history of the species during the Quaternary period and to propose how it dispersed from ...