How Mammals Conquered the World
An interesting article from Scientific American that provides much more detail on how mammals survived and evolved the great extinction event caused by a giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mammals-conquered-the-world-after-the-asteroid-apocalypse/.
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