Paleontology: Fever Chart for Fossils. 3 minute read. TIME. September 8, 1967 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... only two degrees above the temperature of its modern contemporary, the two-toed sloth.

Looking at a fever chart for the Earth, the red line just keeps rising. The world has just been through a decade where the planet has been plagued by raging wildfires, melting ice and extreme ...

What counts as a fever. ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that temperatures of 100.4 and above qualify as a fever — a roughly two-degree increase from 98.6.