It has been two weeks, and America has not yet bombed Afghanistan back into the Pliocene epoch, the next rung of primitivism below the Stone Age.
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During the Cenozoic era, specifically about 25 million years ago during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, the continental climate became favorable to the evolution of grasslands.
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The Miocene boundaries are not marked by a single distinct global event but consist rather of regional boundaries between the warmer Oligocene and the cooler Pliocene Epoch.
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These species include " Acinonyx pardinensis " ( Pliocene epoch ), notably larger than the modern cheetah, and " A . intermedius " ( mid-Pleistocene period ).
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"' Eogruidae "'( also spelled "'Eogruiidae "'in some publications ) is a family of large, flightless birds that occurred across Eurasia from the Eocene to Pliocene epochs.
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Pipe Creek Sinkhole, uncovered in 1996 at the Pipe Creek Junior limestone quarry near Swayzee, has been the site of important paleontological discoveries dating from the Pliocene epoch.
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The "'Pico Formation "'is a Pliocene epoch stratigraphic unit and geologic formation in the greater Los Angeles Basin and Santa Monica Mountains, in Los Angeles County of Southern California.
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The fossil shows " L . scagliai " was a medium-sized phorusrhacid around four feet tall and lived in Argentina approximately 3.5 million years ago during the Pliocene Epoch.
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The mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolite, granite, and quartzite.
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They lived from the Pliocene epoch ( from around 5 million years ago ) into the Holocene at about 4, 500 years ago in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
