Around this time,
early dinosaurs started evolving.
Not exact matches
In the
early 1980s, Jack, who had
started with the business in 1976 by sweeping floors during summer college breaks, told his mother that she owned a
dinosaur.
The extinction of the
dinosaurs allowed our distant mammalian ancestors to
start foraging during the day for the first time — and shaped our
early evolution
In their study, published today in the Springer scientific journal «The Science of Nature,» the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins
started much
earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of
dinosaurs.
Starting with the first primitive vertebrates, they go through the
early fishes, amphibians and reptiles, pterosaurs,
dinosaurs, primitive mammals, and recent mammals.
The researchers conclude that because of this, the evolution of penguins
started much
earlier than assumed, likely already during the age of
dinosaurs.
It is perhaps the world's richest trove of rocks from the late Triassic, when
dinosaurs, and
early mammals, got their evolutionary
start.