Understanding ancient ocean temperatures—particularly from the Cenozoic era (the past 66 million years), in which Earth experienced dramatic climate shifts—helps scientists reveal more about ...

In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number and diversity of mammals exploded. In just 10 million years -- a brief flash of time by geologic standards -- about 130 ...

A new study by Connecticut College provides strong evidence that palm trees once thrived in subarctic Canada, reshaping ...

And 64 million years after dinosaurs went extinct, modern humans emerged in the Cenozoic era. The planet has seen an incredible series of changes—discover them for yourself.

The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later, experts are pondering if we’ve entered a new geologic age induced by modern humans (and ...

In turn, the extinction of the dinosaurs and several other animal groups 65.5 million years ago defines the beginning of the Cenozoic era. We are including several pages with geologic time scale data ...

It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the Paleogene - the first period of the Cenozoic Era, our current era. It lasted a long time, nearly 80 million ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles were conspicuously absent from the face of the Earth. Rodent-size ...

That puts Megatooth, and probably some of its ancestors, at the top step of the prehistoric food chain when it stalked the seas during the Cenozoic era, which began about 66 million years ago and ...

Like their lumbering grazers, most cycads have gone extinct. Their disappearance from their prior habitats began during the late Mesozoic and continued into the early Cenozoic Era, punctuated by the ...