The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Are Dinosaurs Better at Being Big?
The largest animals in the history of the world are mammals. Is there some something different about the temperature or the flora or fauna that would mean a reptile, a dinosaur, would have an easier ime being large than a mammal? Or maybe it was just a game of chance and contingency and timing. Maybe the dinosaurs just got bigger first, and then they seized those ecological niches and they kept them.
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