New clues unearthed about mammals' rapid evolution after dinosaur extinction
Monday, August 27, 2018 - 13:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It was a life-altering event. Around 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, an asteroid struck the Earth, triggering a mass extinction that killed off the dinosaurs and some 75% of all species. Somehow mammals survived, thrived, and became dominant across the planet. Now we have new clues about how that happened.