Cincinnati Zoo | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:59:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 How big was the Giant Short-faced Bear? https://boneblogger.com/how-big-was-the-giant-short-faced-bear/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-big-was-the-giant-short-faced-bear Sat, 15 May 2010 19:38:35 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1253 The character of living things on land changed forever after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions, 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs on land and the marine reptiles in the oceans went extinct, leaving way for mammals and birds to evolve into those niches once held by the “terrible lizards” (dinosaurs) and other giant reptiles. Throughout the Cenozoic, […]

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