The Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution saw the emergence of social insects like ants and termites as a response to the appearance of flowering plants. Now, PBS Eons’ Michelle Barboza-Ramirez poses the question of whether or not that had anything to do with dinosaurs appearing to shrink in the fossil record.
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