GENERAL GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cenozoic (66 million years ago until today) means ‘recent life. ‘ During this era, plants and animals look most like those on Earth today.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Quaternary Period is the third and last of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era. You and I are living in this period, which began only 2.58 million years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -From the extinction of the dinosaurs until today, the Cenozoic Era is the age of mammals. Mass extinctions create opportunities for new life to thrive, and mammals filled the gap that dinosaurs left behind. They evolved into many species you would recognize today-including humans!

Detailed explanation-4: -Early in the Cenozoic Era, Earth was dominated by relatively small animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. As the Cenozoic progressed, first birds, and then mammals greatly diversified, taking advantage of the extinction of the dinosaurs that occurred at the end of the preceding Mesozoic Era.

Detailed explanation-5: -Officially, the current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11, 700 years ago after the last major ice age.