All adults remember being exposed to their first books and pictures of dinosaurs and giant sea creatures , and the deep-rooted awe they inspired in children’s imaginations, but what was not so popular were the smaller forerunners, the ancient life forms that cut their way between and around the giant predators of the seas. Donning virtual diving helmets and following the evolutionary chains of ancient sea creatures, both great and small, through the published research of scientists, still captures the imagination.
Recent Realigning The Extinction Of The Dinosaurs
In a June 2021 research paper, published in the journal
Nature Communications Dr Fabien Condamine, from the University of Montpellier, and coauthor Professor Mike Benton from University of Bristol, reveal that about 76 million years ago , 10 million years before the famous asteroid collision in Chicxulub in modern Mexico that wiped out the dinosaurs, “