Quaternary

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Frilled Shark – A Deep-Sea Shark From Suruga Bay Whose Pregnancy Was Estimated at Three and a Half Years

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Elephant Bird – The Closest Relative of a Bird Weighing Hundreds of Kilograms Is the Kiwi

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Tuatara – Is It a “Living Fossil”? Studies of Its Bones and Its Genes Disagree

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Dire Wolf – It Looked Like a Wolf, but Its DNA Split from Wolves 5.7 Million Years Ago

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Woolly Mammoth – The Last Herd Began With Eight Animals, and Its Genes Did Not Finish It

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Smilodon – Long Sabers, and a Bite a Third as Strong as a Lion’s

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Steller’s Sea Cow – The Herd Recorded Alive Was the Last Remnant of a Species That Once Spanned the North Pacific

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Ginkgo – Inside a Seed-Bearing Tree, Sperm Were Swimming

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Naumann’s Elephant – Re-dating the Last Fossils Moved Its Extinction 10,000 Years Earlier

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Metasequoia – Named From Fossils, Then Found Alive in a Chinese Mountain Village

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 15-1】Cenozoic: The Quaternary – Why the Mammoths Died Out at the End of the Last Ice Age

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 15-2】The Quaternary Period – When Earth Had Many Human Species