Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

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 ...

Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...

One of the astonishing facts of palaeobotany has been the sudden appearance of Flowering Plants in late Cretaceous times. Dicotyledonous stems are now known, however, from lower Cretaceous rocks ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

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 ...

New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...

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 ...

Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...