So, there is this big evolutionary story going on between plants and animals.' 'Everything that lived on land that was larger than a metre in size in the Cretaceous was a dinosaur,' says ...

The Late Cretaceous period was 100.5-66 million years ... were a variety of different types of mammals. Up until recently, it was believed that these mammals were all quite small, about the ...

And mammals sat poised to fill the void that soon ... extinction of more than half the planet's species at the end of the Cretaceous remains a matter of scientific debate. But the shifted ...

The mammal, named Patagomaia chainko, lived about 70 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago). The find, described in a ...

By the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants had become dominant, providing food for burgeoning populations of insects, which in turn became another high-quality food source for the mammals ...

Additionally, the evolution of eutherians, or placental mammals, has been further clarified with the discovery of a new Early Cretaceous eutherian specimen. This fossil provides crucial ...

For more than a century, scientists used the fossil record to look back in evolutionary history and believed that the ancestors of modern mammals originated and flourished around 65 million years ago, ...

The new Cretaceous mammal Maotherium is a chipmunk-sized nocturnal mammal. It lived 123 million years ago. It had terrestrial habits and scampered around on the ground. From its skeleton it is ...

ONO, Fukui Prefecture--A mammal fossil unearthed from a geological formation here is 127 million years old and dates from the early Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs dominated the Earth ...

The first snakes evolved during this time, and by the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants were a much more common part of Earth's plant life. Various insect groups also appeared, including bees, ...