What is the Neogene Period?
The Neogene is the eleventh and most recent period of complex life on Earth. It began 23 million years ago and continues to the present. The characteristic trend throughout the Neogene period has been global cooling and the death of forests previously which had previously filled the center of continents such as Asia, North America, even Australia. In place of forests grew vast arid plains, grasslands, prairie, steppes, and tundra. The world as a whole dried out. Pleasant climactic conditions which had persisted for 200 million years came to a relatively abrupt halt. Because of an abundance of grass, the Neogene is sometimes called the Age of Grasses. Due to the separation of Antarctica from Australia and the relative sealing-off of the Arctic sea from the rest of the world’s waters, frigid currents dominated the poles, causing them to freeze over for the first time in hundreds of millions of years. Previously the forests had extended towards the poles. These harsh conditions caused vig
The Neogene is the eleventh and most recent period of complex life on Earth. It began 23 million years ago and continues to the present. The characteristic trend throughout the Neogene period has been global cooling and the death of forests previously which had previously filled the center of continents such as Asia, North America, even Australia. In place of forests grew vast arid plains, grasslands, prairie, steppes, and tundra. The world as a whole dried out. Pleasant climactic conditions which had persisted for 200 million years came to a relatively abrupt halt. Because of an abundance of grass, the Neogene is sometimes called the Age of Grasses. Due to the separation of Antarctica from Australia and the relative sealing-off of the Arctic sea from the rest of the world’s waters, frigid currents dominated the poles, causing them to freeze over for the first time in hundreds of millions of years. Previously the forests had extended towards the poles. These harsh conditions caused v
