«We're looking for fossils of backboned animals that were living in Antarctica at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs, so we can learn more about how the devastating extinction that happened right afterward might have affected polar ecosystems.» (science.howstuffworks.com)
(Inside Science)-- It has long been known that the catastrophic end of the Age of Dinosaurs helped lead to the rise of the Age of Mammals. (insidescience.org)
The group is focused on unearthing fossils from dinosaurs that lived between 100 and 40 million years ago, what scientists refer to as the Cretaceous - Paleogene, or K - Pg, a period that marks the end of the age of dinosaurs and the rise of mammals. (discovermagazine.com)