The new finds «give us a very different view of mammal
life during the age of dinosaurs,» says John Wible, an expert in mammalian evolution at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the work.
Not exact matches
An international team
of scientists has discovered a new lineage
of extinct plankton - feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that
lived in warm oceans
during the
age of the
dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago.
Spanning more than 135 Ma
during the «
Age of Dinosaurs», plesiosaur marine reptiles represent one
of longest -
lived radiations
of aquatic tetrapods and certainly the most diverse one.
One
of the great unknowns in the history
of life is the part that Antarctica may have played in the evolution and migration
of vertebrates (backboned animals)
during the key time interval that spans the end
of the
Age of Dinosaurs and the beginning
of the
Age of Mammals (the Cretaceous — Paleogene or K — Pg, between 100 and 40 million years ago).