In 2001, researchers reported that a fossil found in China in 1985 is the remains of a tiny, furry animal that was a ... In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... whales in the mid- to late Paleogene. The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the ...

In a few rare cases, something extra left behind in the fossil record leads to a groundbreaking discovery, or, at least, the identification of a new species. Researchers working in New South Wales, ...

These were large animals that usually weighed over 44kg ... filled the empty spaces left by the dinosaurs during the Cenozoic era. This period is also called the “Age of Mammals”.

Daily and seasonal variations in temperature, annual cycles of precipitation, and larger swings in climate shape adaptations of plants and animals and ... Africa during a period of low sea level ...

With animals, whole groups disappeared ... the Palaeogene Period and the Cenozoic Era began. In the Palaeogene, the continents drifted even closer to their present-day positions, and during the ...

The researchers sliced the fossil record of the Cenozoic era into million-year increments and used three indices of functional diversity—which quantifies changes in community structures using ...