Called Hadrocodium wui, the little creature had certain key mammalian ... and molars. In the early Cenozoic era, after the dinosaurs became extinct, the number and diversity of mammals exploded.

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs ... whales in the mid- to late Paleogene. The huge animals evolved from land mammals that took to the ...

Primates are smart, flexible, and adaptive creatures. How have they responded ... Covert, H.H. Biology of early Cenozoic primates. In Comparative Primate Biology, Systematics, Evolution, and ...

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.

With animals, whole groups disappeared ... the Palaeogene Period and the Cenozoic Era began. In the Palaeogene, the continents drifted even closer to their present-day positions, and during the ...