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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 ...
The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...
Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...
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 ...
Long before the asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, many mammals had already started living on the ground, ...
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.