What was life on Earth like after the dinosaurs disappeared? What animals and plants existed in the roughly 60 million years between dinosaurs dying out and humans appearing on the planet?

Find the answers to these questions at the new interactive exhibit, “When the Dinosaurs Were Gone,” at the National Geographic Society’s museum, Explorers Hall, from May 24 through August 6, 2001.

Can’t make it to Washington, D.C., to see our exhibit? Check out our photo gallery.

Nationalgeographic.com resources:
Dinosaur Eggs (feature)
Outpost: DinoQuest (feature)
Explorer-in-Residence: Paul Sereno (biography)