Megafauna, though not dinosaur sized ... In our current age, the Cenozoic, “almost everything eats fruit,” Doughty said. It’s now tasty and ubiquitous, but 65 million years ago, it was ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...