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The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago had little effect on the evolution of mammals.
2007-03-28
mammal dinosaur evolution extinction visualizationThe scientists in the film Jurassic Park reconstructed dinosaurs from DNA preserved in amber. That fiction is unlikely ever to become fact because DNA simply is not tough enough to survive in that way. But reconstructing a dinosaur from genes passed down the evolutionary tree to modern birds might be viable...
2001-07-19
dinosaur evolution DNA cloning reconstruction geneticsThe fossilised skull of a colossal "sea monster" has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. The skull is 2.4m long, and experts say it could belong to one of the largest pliosaurs ever found: measuring up 16m in length.
2009-10-27
dinosaur oceanAn international panel of experts has strongly endorsed evidence that a space impact was behind the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs.
2010-03-04
meteorite dinosaur extinction toreadCharles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution. He imagined a world in which organisms battled for supremacy and only the fittest survived. But new research identifies the availability of "living space", rather than competition, as being of key importance for evolution.
2010-08-23
evolution Charles Darwin competition environment dinosaur extinction space