{"id":2321,"date":"2026-07-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/science-word-of-the-day-cenozoic\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:00:00","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-cenozoic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/26\/science-word-of-the-day-cenozoic\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Cenozoic"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><strong>Science word of the day: <\/strong>Cenozoic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronunciation:<\/strong> <em>See-noh-ZOH&#8217;-ihk<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means: <\/strong>The ascendency of mammals, the birth of the Himalayas, the diversification of birds \u202a\u2014\u202c Earth&#8217;s in its Cenozoic era, baby! <\/p>\n<p>The Cenozoic is the geological era happening right now. It started 66 million years ago with the abrupt mass extinction known as the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, when a massive asteroid hit Earth and wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs. It&#8217;s been a busy few tens of millions of years, ushering in such hits as Earth&#8217;s first cacti, whales and most (if not all) of the Grand Canyon. <\/p>\n<p><strong>How to use it in a sentence: <\/strong>The <em>Cenozoic <\/em>is called the Age of Mammals, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucmp.berkeley.edu\/cenozoic\/cenozoic.html\"><u>University of California Museum of Paleontology<\/u><\/a> in Berkeley would like you to know it could have been called the Age of Teleost Fish, if mammals weren&#8217;t so dang self-centered. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\"><u><strong>Chain Word<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-W2rM4W\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest from Live Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science word of the day: Cenozoic Pronunciation: See-noh-ZOH&#8217;-ihk What it means: The ascendency of mammals, the birth of the Himalayas, the diversification of birds \u202a\u2014\u202c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}