Flowering plants, not dinosaurs, drove mammals to ground 72 million years ago
Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any influence from dinosaurs."
Dryolestes, a Late Jurassic relative of the Cretaceous therians.(photo credit: Artist James Brown, courtesy of Pamela Gill)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF