In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number and diversity of mammals exploded. In just 10 million years -- a brief flash of time by geologic standards -- about 130 ...

We haven't seen that in anything modern." The next step was to try to match it to Cenozoic-era plants on the fossil record. Once again, the researchers came up empty. There were just no known ...

He added, "We haven't seen that in anything modern." After the scientists were unable to match the fossil to Cenozoic-era plants, they concluded it came from an extinct plant family. Then ...

In turn, the extinction of the dinosaurs and several other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages with geologic time scale data ...

And 64 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era. The planet has seen an incredible series of changes—discover them for yourself.

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 ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded to changes in climate over millions of years? Climate is the major factor that determines where a species can and ...

g. the Brontothere and Elm Leaf of the Cenozoic Era are shown against the yellow background, the Triceratops Skull and Ammonite of the Mesozoic Era are shown against the green background, etc.). The ...

Like their lumbering grazers, most cycads have gone extinct. Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the early Cenozoic Era, punctuated by the ...