Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

because some element of them finds a way to survive extinction.' Ginkgo biloba is the only remaining member of their group Ginkgoales, the diversity of which began declining in the Late Cretaceous.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place roughly 252 million years ago and was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet. It represents ...

This long and catastrophic chain of events occurred during the Mesozoic era ... Chain Of Events Was The Likely Cause Of A ...

3 min read The start of the Triassic period (and the Mesozoic era ... a fatal run-in with a comet or asteroid—had triggered the extinction of more than 90 percent of Earth's species.

The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million ...

As ammonites evolved throughout the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million ... during the planet’s most recent mass extinction event. In the final days of the Cretaceous, a 7.5-mile-wide ...

In the Mesozoic Era, dinosaurs were the undisputed ... Following the dinosaurs‘ extinction, mammals took center stage. With so many ecological niches suddenly vacant, our mammalian ancestors ...

Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the early Cenozoic Era ... may have allowed them to compete better with the faster-growing angiosperm ...

We study the evolution of mammals, especially those that lived after dinosaur extinction and during past intervals of climate change, the structure and dynamics of Mesozoic ecosystems recorded in ...