Cenozoic

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Paleogene】Pakicetus – The Four-Legged Animal an Ear Bone Made a Whale

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Elephant Bird – The Closest Relative of a Bird Weighing Hundreds of Kilograms Is the Kiwi

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Paleogene】Darwinius – The Fossil Unveiled as a “Missing Link” Turned Out to Sit on the Lemur Side of the Primates

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Neogene】Livyatan – Its First Name, “Leviathan,” Had Already Been Given to a Mastodon in 1841

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Dire Wolf – It Looked Like a Wolf, but Its DNA Split from Wolves 5.7 Million Years Ago

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Woolly Mammoth – The Last Herd Began With Eight Animals, and Its Genes Did Not Finish It

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Paleogene】Basilosaurus – A Whale Still Named “King Lizard”

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Smilodon – Long Sabers, and a Bite a Third as Strong as a Lion’s

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Steller’s Sea Cow – The Herd Recorded Alive Was the Last Remnant of a Species That Once Spanned the North Pacific

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Neogene】Desmostylus – The Same Skeleton Was Reassembled Again and Again in Different Stances

Earth Timeline

Earth Timeline Series – Index

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 13-1】The Paleogene Period – A World Where Mammals Filled the Empty Seats

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 13-2】The Paleogene Period – Abrupt Warming and the Whales That Returned to the Sea

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 15-1】Cenozoic: The Quaternary – Why the Mammoths Died Out at the End of the Last Ice Age

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 15-2】The Quaternary Period – When Earth Had Many Human Species