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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Mammals Are Resilient

Since homo sapien started moving around the world, something like 350 mammals species have died. This is not a catastrophic number in the sense of mass extinctions. We are entering a state that is a bit different than anything that's come before. Yet we can look in the fossil record and see what's happened in the past. Temperatures have risen. Happening over the crase of a hundred years, rather than tens of thousand exactly. And so we are kind and of course, it's because of us too.

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