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Paleontology
How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse
They scurried in the shadows of dinosaurs for millions of years until a killer space rock created a new world of evolutionary opportunity
Steve Brusatte is a professor at the University of Edinburgh and author of The Rise and Reign of the Mammals, a new narrative history of mammal evolution (Mariner Books, 2022). Credit: Nick Higgins
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