Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
during the Cretaceous period. That's relatively recent in geologic time: If all Earth's history were compressed into an hour, flowering plants would exist for only the last 90 seconds. But once ...
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 ...
Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...
A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...
Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...
New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...
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 ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.