Even after life became complex and differentiated, and animals overran both the oceans and continents, mammals wouldn’t arrive until relatively recently in natural history. It wasn’t until a mass extinction event took away most of the dinosaurs and reptiles that mammals finally emerged as a me...
Since the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago,fishhave evolved and diversified, leading to the wide variety of fish species we see today. Sixty-six million years ago, it was a tough time to be a dinosaur (since they were, you know, all dying), but it wa...
Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.
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This is not a religion, this is a ruthless event in the history of the universe. When the end comes, we can only be passive, and only the master who created the end is active-destroying human beings in creation and creating human beings in destruction. This is the irresistible magical po...
While the Centrosaurus was likely weak from cancer before it died, Evans said the disease may not have killed the dinosaur. The fossil was found in a bonebed containing the remains of hundreds of other Centrosaurus dinosaurs, which suggested that they died in a flood. ...
and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, it lived alongside some of the greats —Tyrannosaurus rex,Triceratops,Ornithomimus, andDakotaraptor —during the late Cretaceous Period. So late, in fact, that it was around during the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. ...
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the most familiar one—the cataclysm thatended the Age of Dinosaurs. The end-Cretaceous or Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, otherwise known as K-T, killed off all dinosaurs save birds roughly 65 million years ago, as well as roughly half of all species on the planet, including pterosaurs...
The movie After Earth (2013, directed by M. Night Shyamalan) takes place following a massive planetary extinction event and various other calamities that have forced humans to flee the planet. The film begins 1,000 years after humanity's departure. The remaining organisms have evolved to treat ...