Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million years ago. 3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine ...

we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for ...

Explore the iconic woolly mammoth, the defining species of the Cenozoic Era. From their evolution to their impact on early humans, we dive into the life and extinction of these majestic creatures ...

2002), and it is hypothesized that the ancestor to modern platyrrhines (New World monkeys) migrated from Africa during a period of low ... Islands in the Holocene. High sea levels may have been ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...