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 ...

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth in the mighty Mesozoic. And 64 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era. The planet has seen an incredible series of changes ...

Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth experienced dramatic climate shifts—helps scientists reveal more about ...

Back then Earth was a lot warmer than it is today and there was little ... the Palaeogene Period and the Cenozoic Era began. In the Palaeogene, the continents drifted even closer to their present-day ...

SMU research reveals glaciers erode mountains faster than previously thought, with implications for climate change models and ...

Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth—including the evolution of life ... groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are ...

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 ... Boston College Assistant ...