eocene in A Sentence

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    Eocene, these are still biologists.

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    The Eocene Earth.

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    The Lower Eocene.

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    Almost 34 million years ago, the late Eocene epoch gave way to the Oligocene.

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    Fossil records suggest that Lagomorpha evolved in Asia at least 40 million years ago, during the Eocene period.

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    Fossil kingfishers have been described from Lower Eocene rocks in Wyoming and Middle Eocene rocks in Germany, around 30-40 million years ago.

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    The oldest squirrel fossil, Hesperopetes, dates back to the Chadronian(late Eocene, about 40-35 million years ago) and is similar to modern flying squirrels.

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    During the Eocene, Earth's continents were packed more closely together and global temperatures averaged 23.4 degrees Fahrenheit(13 degrees Celsius) warmer than they are today.

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    During the Eocene, the Earth's continents were packed more closely together and global temperatures averaged 23.4 degrees Fahrenheit(13 degrees Celsius) warmer than they are today.

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    But size plasticity seems to have been great at this initial stage of penguin radiation: on Seymour Island, Antarctica, for example, around 10 known species of penguins ranging in size from medium to huge apparently coexisted some 35 mya during the Priabonian Late Eocene.

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    But there has never been a runaway greenhouse on Earth- it would have sterilized the planet and life would never have emerged at all- and the planet has been at least 10 degrees Celsius hotter during the Eocene 50 million years ago, when CO2 levels were much higher.

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