As the Ice Age thawed, humans rose above the rest. But the possibility of a sixth mass extinction now looms: Has our ingenuity caused our downfall?
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Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conquer land, air and sea.
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Oct 25 2023 |
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty 10,000 species strong.
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Oct 25 2023 |
The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity � and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
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Oct 25 2023 |
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
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Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
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Oct 25 2023 |
For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before � and after � two mass extinctions.
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Oct 25 2023 |
Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
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Oct 25 2023 |