When the Dino-Killing Asteroid Hit, Mammals Were Already on the Move
Researchers suggest that ground-based mammals fared better than their arboreal relatives during the end-Cretaceous extinction ...
Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid, research reveals
More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
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When the Dinos Died, Mammals Were Already Adopting Terrestrial Lifestyles
Learn more about the mammalian transition from arboreal to terrestrial life, which began millions of years before the arrival ...
Mammals’ evolution to terrestrial life happened just before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs - study reveals
Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of ...
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Mammals Were Living on the Ground Millions of Years Prior to the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
The evidence was gathered from bone articular fragments of therian mammals, which includes marsupials and placentals.
Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...
Tiny Fossils Reveal Mammals Left the Trees Long Before the Asteroid Impact
Millions of years before the asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, mammals were already beginning to shift ...
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Mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction
New fossil analysis shows mammals transitioned to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years before the mass extinction—driven ...
Early mammals were all one color, study suggests
The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals, ...