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Ancient Craters and the Rise of Mammals

The story of our planet’s most dramatic transformation began with a catastrophic collision that forever changed the course of life on Earth. Picture this: sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid approximately ten kilometers in diameter hurtled toward our planet at incredible speed, ultimately striking what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. This wasn’t just another space ...

The Walking Whales That Bridged Life Between Sea and Land

The Walking Whales That Bridged Life Between Sea and Land

Imagine discovering the fossil of a creature that fundamentally changed our understanding of life itself. Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) are an order of mammals that originated about approximately 48.5 million years ago in the Eocene epoch. What seems impossible today was reality millions of years ago: Early ancestors of modern whales once walked on ...