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Amazing fossils reveal how creatures took over after the dinosaurs in “The Rise of the Mammals” on NOVA – July 23 at 10 pm


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“The Rise of the Mammals”

Wednesday, July 23 at 10:00 pm

 

A series of four different mammal skulls ranging in different sizes placed on a black background

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs in a fiery global catastrophe. But we know little about how their successors, the mammals, recovered and took over the world.

Now, hidden inside ordinary-looking rocks, an astonishing trove of fossils reveals a dramatic new picture of how rat-sized creatures ballooned in size and began to evolve into the vast array of species—from cheetahs to bats to whales to humans—that rule our planet today.