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Wikipedia Overview
The Pliocene is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.33 to 2.58 million years ago (Ma). It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch. Prior to the 2009 revision of the geologic time scale, which placed the four most recent major glaciations entirely within the Pleistocene, the Pliocene also included the Gelasian Stage, which lasted from 2.59 to 1.81 Ma, and is now included in the Pleistocene.
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Disconnection of the late Pliocene Agulhas Leakage from Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - Nature
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Evolution of Pliocene-Pleistocene tropical terrestrial Andean temperature amplification - PNAS
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Yale researchers predict ocean circulation of Pliocene Era - Yale Daily News
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Geological evidence questions the role of Agulhas Leakage in Atlantic Ocean Circulation - EurekAlert!
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West Antarctic Ice Sheet advance since the early Pliocene - Nature
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Human evolution - Miocene, Bipedalism, Adaptations - Encyclopedia Britannica
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Ice core reveals low CO2 during warm spell 3 million years ago - New Scientist
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Parts of the tropics may warm more than expected as CO2 rises, study finds - Brown University
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Ice World Assay: Ancient Antarctica Reveals A ‘One–two Punch’ Behind Ice Sheet Collapse - Astrobiology Web
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A Massive Pliocene Crocodile May Have Hunted Lucy and Other Early Hominins, 3 Million Years Ago - Discover Magazine
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Half-Ton Cattle Relatives Roamed Europe 4 Million Years Ago - Sci.News
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Half-ton early Bovines roamed 4-million-year-old grasslands in Europe - EurekAlert!
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Scythicorhinus vekuai gen. nov. et comb. nov. (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the Pliocene of Georgia and its implications for the early evolution of Coelodonta and Stephanorhinus - Nature
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Repeated major inland retreat of Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers (West Antarctica) during the Pliocene - PNAS
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Dryopithecus - Encyclopedia Britannica
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Early Oldowan technology thrived during Pliocene environmental change in the Turkana Basin, Kenya - Nature
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The Mysteries of the Megalodon Shark - Encyclopedia Britannica
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Spatially variable response of Antarctica’s ice sheets to orbital forcing during the Pliocene - Nature
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On the coincidence between the close passage of HD7977 and the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition - Nature
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A physics-driven workflow for gas-sand identification in Pliocene turbidites using pre-stack inversion and seismic attributes, offshore Egypt | Scientific Reports - Nature
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4-million-year-old juvenile tapir skeleton unearthed in Spain is the most complete ever found in Europe - Archaeology News Online Magazine
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First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene - EurekAlert!
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First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene - EurekAlert!
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Half-ton early bovines roamed 4-million-year-old grasslands in Europe - Phys.org
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A Surprising Ice Age from Three Million Years Ago Shows Lessons for Today - Rutgers University
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First of a line or last of a dynasty? Parabos tigneresi and the evolution of eurasian bovinae in the early pliocene - EurekAlert!
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Late Pliocene growth of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to near-modern configuration - Nature
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Fossils reveal how ancient cattle roamed Earth 4 million years ago - Purdue Exponent
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Constraints on global mean sea level during Pliocene warmth - Nature
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Whale fossils reveal evidence of ancient shark attacks - The Brighter Side of News
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The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity - Nature
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Pliocene decoupling of equatorial Pacific temperature and pH gradients - Nature
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Atmospheric CO2 during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period and the M2 glaciation | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Major sea level fall during the Pliocene M2 glaciation - Nature
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Cold spells over Greenland during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period - Nature
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Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates - PNAS
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Expansion and Intensification of the North American Monsoon During the Pliocene - AGU Publications
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Pliocene Warmth Consistent With Greenhouse Gas Forcing - Tierney - 2019 - Geophysical Research Letters - AGU Publications
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Fossils reveal how ancient cattle roamed Earth 4 million years ago - keysnews.com
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Integrating geological archives and climate models for the mid-Pliocene warm period - Nature
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Pliocene shorelines and the epeirogenic motion of continental margins: a target dataset for dynamic topography models - Copernicus.org
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Abrupt conclusion of the late Miocene-early Pliocene biogenic bloom at 4.6-4.4 Ma - Nature
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Intermediate water circulation drives distribution of Pliocene Oxygen Minimum Zones - Nature
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What the Pliocene epoch can teach us about future warming on Earth - Science News
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Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific - Nature
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A thicker Antarctic ice stream during the mid-Pliocene warm period | Communications Earth & Environment - Nature
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A Revised Estimate of Early Pliocene Global Mean Sea Level Using Geodynamic Models of the Patagonian Slab Window - AGU Publications
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Geodynamically corrected Pliocene shoreline elevations in Australia consistent with midrange projections of Antarctic ice loss - Science | AAAS
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Latest Pliocene Northern Hemisphere glaciation amplified by intensified Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Nature
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Global warming – we have lessons to learn from the Pliocene epoch - CORDIS | European Commission
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Early Pliocene Shoaling of the Central American Seaway Reconstructed From Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes - Farmer - 2025 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - AGU Publications
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Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene–Pliocene boundary - Nature
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Impacts of Mid-Pliocene Ice Sheets and Vegetation on Afro-Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Revealed by EC-Earth Simulations - AGU Publications
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Regional restructuring in planktic foraminifera communities through Pliocene-early Pleistocene climate variability - Nature
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Isotopic evidence against North Pacific Deep Water formation during late Pliocene warmth - Nature
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Taxonomic and Paleobiological insights into Small Mammals from the Pliocene of Western Turkey - Universiteit Leiden
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Mid-Pliocene El Niño/Southern Oscillation suppressed by Pacific intertropical convergence zone shift - Nature
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Poleward and weakened westerlies during Pliocene warmth - Nature
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Dynamic Greenland ice sheet driven by pCO2 variations across the Pliocene Pleistocene transition - Nature
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Drier tropical and subtropical Southern Hemisphere in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period | Scientific Reports - Nature
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Pliocene fossils support a New Zealand origin for the smallest extant penguins | Journal of Paleontology - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein - Science | AAAS
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Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification - Nature
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Effects of CO2 and Ocean Mixing on Miocene and Pliocene Temperature Gradients - AGU Publications
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A Humid East Asia During the Early Pliocene Indicated by Calcite Nodules From the Chinese Loess Plateau - AGU Publications
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Summer monsoon may return to mid-Pliocene level by 2100: Study - The New Indian Express
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Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5-million-year North African humid period - Nature
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Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins - Nature
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Pliocene oceanic seaways and global climate - Nature
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Multiproxy Reconstruction of Pliocene North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures and Implications for Rainfall in North Africa - AGU Publications
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Monsoon rainfall over India was higher during the mid-Pliocene period: Study - Deccan Herald
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Higher than present global mean sea level recorded by an Early Pliocene intertidal unit in Patagonia (Argentina) - Nature
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Pliocene cooling enhanced by flow of low-salinity Bering Sea water to the Arctic Ocean - Nature
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Rapid Pliocene adaptive radiation of modern kangaroos - Science | AAAS
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Active Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC) during the warm Pliocene - Science | AAAS
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Pliocene‐Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Sea‐Level Estimates, Republic of South Africa With Implications for a 400 ppmv CO2 World - AGU Publications
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The evolution of the equatorial thermocline and the early Pliocene El Padre mean state - AGU Publications
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Impacts of Mid‐Pliocene Ice Sheets and Vegetation on Afro‐Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Revealed by EC‐Earth Simulations - Han - 2024 - Geophysical Research Letters - AGU Publications
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High climate model dependency of Pliocene Antarctic ice-sheet predictions - Nature
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(((O))) Review: Pliocene – Get Up + Live Forever - Echoes And Dust
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Pliocene to Earliest Pleistocene (5–2.5 Ma) Reconstruction of the Kuroshio Current Extension Reveals a Dynamic Current - Lam - 2021 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - AGU Publications
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On the causes of Arctic sea ice in the warm Early Pliocene - Nature
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Mid-Pliocene warm-period deposits in the High Arctic yield insight into camel evolution - Nature
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The Late Miocene‐Early Pliocene Biogenic Bloom: An Integrated Study in the Tasman Sea - AGU Publications
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Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth - Nature
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A Pliocene Precipitation Isotope Proxy-Model Comparison Assessing the Hydrological Fingerprints of Sea Surface Temperature Gradients - AGU Publications
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Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest - WIRED
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Evolution of woodcutting behaviour in Early Pliocene beaver driven by consumption of woody plants | Scientific Reports - Nature
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The Whales of Fishing Creek: Climate Lessons From the Pliocene - Pulitzer Center
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Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene - AGU Publications
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Patterns and Mechanisms of Northeast Pacific Temperature Response to Pliocene Boundary Conditions - AGU Publications
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Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia - Science | AAAS
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Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania - Science | AAAS
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Detection of Strong Precession Cycles from the Late Pliocene Sedimentary Records of Northeastern Tibetan Plateau - AGU Publications
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Progressive Intensification of Pacific Deep Water Circulation Since the Early Pliocene - AGU Publications
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Increased ventilation of Antarctic deep water during the warm mid-Pliocene - Nature
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Asian monsoon rainfall variation during the Pliocene forced by global temperature change - Nature
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Southern Ocean and Southern African Monsoon Forcing of the Subtropical Indian Ocean Early Pliocene “Biogenic Bloom” - AGU Publications
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Pliocene Epoch in Florida – For Educators - Florida Museum of Natural History
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New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity - Nature
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