The Rise of Mammals
The Ancients
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The Permian Period
There was a collapse of those jungle forests, and the carboniferous period turned into the permian period. This is when you got things like dimetridon, which is a very, very famous animal with a big sall on its back,. Big heads, sharp teeth like stake knives. It's often mistaken for a dinosaur. Dimetridon was not a dinosaur. It lived long before the dinosaurs. It was a senapsid. Now this feels like the next step in the rungs, the ladters, it were, in the story of mammals and their ancestors. Are we stepping forward in time here, when we see some more evolution in these creatures? Absolutely so
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