Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

but the true origin may be lost to history The extinction of the dinosaurs likely paved the way for fruit to take center stage in modern diets. In our current age, the Cenozoic, “almost ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert ... It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long ...

In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number and diversity of mammals exploded. In just 10 million years -- a brief flash of time by geologic standards -- about 130 ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

And 64 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era. The planet has seen an incredible series of changes—discover them for yourself.

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

In "Prehistoric World: Over 1,200 Incredible Mammals and Discoveries from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic," readers will learn about the warm-blooded animals that rose to prominence once the dinosaurs ...

Fossil vertebrae excavated during a mine dig in western India are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever existed.

In turn, the extinction of the dinosaurs and several other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages with geologic time scale data ...