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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Mammals and Dinosaurs Have a Common Ancestors

Mammals and dinosaurs have a common ancestor that they split off. From that ancestor, eventually you would get everything as diverse as dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles, terradactles, birds and mammals. This was the coal age, the time of the first big jungles in earth history. In this weird primitive menagerie, you had this common ancestor of all these animals. It would later evolve. And so we have to go back to that ancestor to start telling the story of the mammals.

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