Category Archives: Evolution

In the article Ascent of Mammals it begins with a breakthrough is evolutionary science that is often a lost one. While Buckland unveiled the first dinosaur, Megolosaurus, the larger evolutionary find that day was two tiny mammal jaws. This changed … Continue reading →

What interested me the most about the rise of mammals is the pace at which evolution can occur. Throughout the article I was baffled by the sheer scale of time- 12,000 years ago humanity began to develop civilizations, so even … Continue reading →

It was very interesting to read mammals had not started out post-dinosaur age like we had thought before. Instead, mammals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs. Granted, those back then were super small and didn’t have much … Continue reading →

From the very first mammaliaforms from the Triassic to modern day humans, teeth have been found to serve wide range of motions that have allowed our ancestors to forage and feed on food sources previously unavailable to them. Molars, combined … Continue reading →

I thought this article was extremely interesting because when thinking about evolution we don’t often think about those small mammaliaform  that were growing along with the dinosaurs. These animals were the foundation of life today and because of their small … Continue reading →

I was always aware of teeth and how they are important for us to eat and chew. However, I never realized how animals also have teeth and that each and every one of them have special teeth according to their … Continue reading →

With respect to evolution, life is a product of chance. It just so happens that nature selected for tribosphenic molars for therians around the same time as it selected for fruit-bearing angiosperms. Organisms with a particular trait were searching for … Continue reading →

What I found truly fascinating about this article was how the main contributing factors to the rise of mammals through evolution seem to be very random and initially insignificant to the situations at the time. The events and adaptations that … Continue reading →

Mammals have gone through many different evolutionary changes in order to be as capable and dominant as they are today. Each evolutionary change allowed them to become more adaptable to their changing environment.  After the volcanic- triggered mass extinction killed … Continue reading →

What impact can we, humans, make with our time on Earth?–our measly 69 years (the world-wide life-expectancy in 2016) against the backdrop of our approximately 4.54 billion year-old planet. The naturalist William Buckland, and the paleontologist Farish Jenkins would be … Continue reading →