NATS 1540 final exam 2023 with 100% correct answers

what is the tertiary period (According to the coursekit article) - the rise of dominance of the mammals. - what happened by the early Eocene in the late cretaceous period, mammals that lived in the undergrowth and hid from the dinosaurs, now more than 20 orders of mammals evolved rapidly and were established by the early Eocene. what happened at the end of the Paleocene? a major episode of faunal turnover largely replaced archaic groups with essentially modern groups such as the perissodactyls and artiodactyls. what happened in the late Eocene an episode of rapid global cooling triggered changes in the vegetation that converted areas of thick rainforest to more open forest and grasslands. what did the evolutionary turnover in the the late ocene cause? the rapid global cooling changed vegetation that converted areas of thick rainforest to more open forest and grasslands thereby causing another interval of evolutionary turnover that included the disappearance of the last of the primitive herbivores, such as the brontotheres. what happened to the land mammal community from the the Oligocene Epoch onward? Land mammal communities were dominated by representatives of the mammalian groups living today like -horses -rhinos -antelopes -deers -camels -elephants -felines -canines What contributing factors helped mammalian groups evolve significantly during the Miocene climate change and vegetation producing more grassy habitat what did mammalian evolution consist of? many herbivorous mammals evolved specialized teeth by grazing gritty grasses and long limbs for running and escaping from increasingly efficient predators A cacophony of Causes ... ARTICLE: Radical Shakeup of Dinosaur family Tree Points to Unexpected Scottish Origins (main idea) -suggests that the two basic groups into which dinosaurs have been classified for more than a century need a fundamental rethink. - the revised family tree would overthrow ideas of what the common ancestor of the dinosaurs looked like and where it came from. -scotland ARTICLE:Hugely Exciting Fossil Discovery Hailed as Missing Link to our Understanding of Dinosaur Evolution (main idea) research sheds light on the distribution and diversity of the ancestors of crocodiles, birds, and dinosaurs and indicates that dinosaur origins should be reexamined now that we know more about the complex history and traits of these early ancestors.