Next week it will be 27 years since the sitcom first debuted in October 1988 and some of the stars have gone on to feature in the likes of Scrubs and The Big Bang Theory. Roseanne Barr. Roseanne Barr played Roseanne Conner, the matriarch of the central family. Playing a character who was bossy and loud, the show was Roseanne's vision of exploring a working class family and their issues. After the sitcom ended, Roseanne went on to launch her own talk show, which ran from 1998 to 2000.
The first primate-like mammals, or proto-primates , evolved in the early Paleocene Epoch (65.5-55.8 million years ago) at the beginning of the Cenozoic Era. They were roughly similar to squirrels and tree shrews in size and appearance.
Textbooks tell a simple story about the rise of the mammals: Tiny, rodent-like animals lived boring lives as insect-eaters, scurrying around the feet of the reigning dinosaurs for millions of years. Then, when the non-avian dinosaurs died some 66 million years ago, mammals had the space to thrive. And they took over. But that's not the whole story, says David Grossnickle. Their evolution is a little more independent from dinosaurs' than is commonly thought, Mr. Grossnickle tells The Christian Science Monitor.