December
10
/ 2019
In the geologic timescale that extends from 5.33 million to 2.58 million years ago, by universal standards, the Pliocene epoch was relatively recent, and it was at this time, when prehistoric life on Earth was adapting to a cooling climate, that mankind’s earliest ancestors emerged, facing monstrous adversaries. In seeking answers as to what Earth was like at this time, to put man’s early ancestors in an environmental context, one must venture through forests infested with ferocious beasts and swim in seas dominated by creatures beyond the wildest imagination. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"68101","attributes":{"alt":"Mid-Pliocene reconstructed annual sea surface temperature anomaly (Giorgiogp2 /CC BY-SA 3.0)","class":"media-image","height":"335","style":"width: 610px; height: 335px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] Mid-Pliocene reconstructed annual sea surface temperature anomaly ( Giorgiogp2 / CC BY-SA 3.0) During the Pliocene epoch
