The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte
Factually! with Adam Conover
Is There an Extra Organ in Warm Blooded Animals?
We do not have an extra organ, you know. We don't have a furnace organ next to our heartnd next to our lungs. The way we do it is through chemical metabolic reactions at the cellular level. That's just a fascinating thing to evolve that late to me. And i think it did take evolution a long time to develop that. But once mammals figured it out, in an evolutionary sense, and they became warm blooded and had these elevated metabolisms, then you see in the fossil record these mammals, they spread all around the world,. They start to diversify. This begins about 225 million years ago. And from that point till day, the fates of dinosaurs and
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