Evolution of the earliest mammals shows successive episodes of diversification. Lineage-
splitting in Mesozoic mammals is coupled with many independent evolutionary experiments …

Non‐avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago, geologically coincident with the
impact of a large bolide (comet or asteroid) during an interval of massive volcanic eruptions …

The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

We found that trends in the rate of description of 580,000 marine and terrestrial species, in
the taxonomically authoritative World Register of Marine Species and Catalogue of Life …

The oldest unequivocal records of Dinosauria were unearthed from Late Triassic rocks
(approximately 230 Ma) accumulated over extensional rift basins in southwestern Pangea …

The observed diversity of dinosaurs reached its highest peak during the mid-and Late
Cretaceous, the 50 Myr that preceded their extinction, and yet this explosion of dinosaur …

The question why non-avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago (Ma) remains
unresolved because of the coarseness of the fossil record. A sudden extinction caused by …

Dinosaurs were remarkably successful during the Mesozoic and one subgroup, birds,
remain an important component of modern ecosystems. Although the extinction of non-avian …

A study of the distribution of dinosaurian body masses in the Dinosaur Park Formation (DPF;
Campanian; southern Alberta), reveals a prominent negative skew; a pattern distinct from …

The L ate J urassic to E arly C retaceous interval represents a time of environmental
upheaval and cataclysmic events, combined with disruptions to terrestrial and marine …