Before the asteroid hit, Steve described mammals as “staying and diversifying in the shadows” while dinosaurs “eventually took over from the crocodiles, got bigger and spread around the ...

The same goes for anybody who went for a plesiosaur: they weren't dinosaurs, and neither were their flying pals. “You may ...

The evolution of mammals has been marked by significant events, such as the mass extinction that wiped out non-avian ...

By contrast, dinosaurs always held up their own weight.' African savanna elephants, Loxodonta africana, are the largest land animals alive today. Most weigh five to seven tonnes. The biggest ...

What would have happened if, 65 million years ago, a meteor had not struck the Earth, contributing to the extinction of the ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

How did mammals come to dominate our planet? Prof Steve Brusatte tells Jim Al-Khalili about his life and work studying dinosaurs, mammals and ancient reptiles.

including large crocodile relatives - both terrestrial and semi-aquatic - and various plant-eaters including elephant-sized ones related to mammals and four-legged armored reptiles. "Dinosaurs ...

The area of the discovery was highlighted by scientists for having great potential, since “the evolution of mammals during the Age of Dinosaurs is still very unknown and each discovery of a new ...