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A few groups of palm-like plants that were a favored food of grazing dinosaurs still exist today. Now researchers have discovered how.

<p>Ancient cycad lineages that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs may have done so by relying on symbiotic bacteria in their roots to fix atmospheric nitrogen. The finding came from an effort to understand ancient atmospheres, but became an insight into plant evolution instead.</p>

Of all the phases Earth has been through, the Mesozoic Era stands out among the rest—even from off-world.

The footage shows the crocodile effortlessly swinging the hippo calf as it thrashes in the muddy water of Kenya's Mara River.

PBS Eons looks at the vast world that ants have created for themselves through evolutionary advances that took place over millions of years.