Explore the iconic woolly mammoth, the defining species of the Cenozoic Era. From their evolution to their impact on early humans, we dive into the life and extinction of these majestic creatures ...

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 ...

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 ...

Next is the Mesozoic Era, which means ‘middle life’ and spans 252 to 66 million years ago. Finally, there is the Cenozoic Era, which began 66 million years ago and in which we live today. The Mesozoic ...

1 Hubei Key Laboratory of Marine Geological Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China 2 Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada ...