image: CGI rendering of ancient Carsioptychus mammal taken from the PBS NOVA special, Rise of the Mammals. In this recreation, Carsioptychus coarctatus eats plants in a newly diversified forest, ~300,000 years after the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Lyson at Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, CO, and colleagues was titled, "Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction." view more
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