Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
When the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit, Mammals Were Already on the Move
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
National Geographic news14y
The Big Bloom—How Flowering Plants Changed the World
Flowers have a way of doing that. They began changing the way the world looked almost as soon as they appeared on Earth about 130 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively ...
National Geographic news3y
Cretaceous Period
Flowering plants were spreading across the landscape ... of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted continents ...
Natural History Museum%2c London1y
The Cretaceous Period: What was Earth like before dinosaurs went extinct?
Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was like back then and the animals and plants that called our planet home. The Cretaceous is a ...