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Nature 438, xiii (24 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/7067xiiia; Published online 23 November 2005

Making the paper: Ann Holbourn

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Unearthing records of past climates from deep beneath the sea.

Geoscientists have long been puzzled by the middle Miocene epoch — a time that stretched from 16 million to 12 million years ago, and that saw some of the most dramatic changes to life on Earth. "We went from green-house conditions to ice-house conditions," says Ann Holbourn, a geoscientist at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany.

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