Around 70 million years ago, Earth’s largest predators were dominating continents, driven by an extraordinary evolutionary shift. Recent findings clarify why dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and ...
The piece illustrates the disparity of the Northern and Southern hemisphere’s evolution of terrestrial Cretaceous faunas after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum. On the left, End Cretaceous Southern ...
Tyrannosaurus rex evolved in North America, but its direct ancestor came from Asia, crossing a land bridge connecting the continents more than 70 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL ...