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 ...

While the origin of flowering plants may go back as far as the Triassic Period, we don't see much evidence of them in the fossil record at the start of the Cretaceous. However, by the end of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...

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