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Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs
And at that time, the Earth was nearing the end of an ice age. The swampy land near the ... into lineages that would one day become mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. But on the fringes, in ...
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Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?
Why was it the mammals who triumphed? An asteroid impact triggered the K-Pg mass extinction, wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs, ending the Age of Reptiles, and ushering in the Age of Mammals.
500-year-old Transylvanian diaries detail the peril of the Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere dropped by about 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit ...
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Why Wasn't There a Second Age of Reptiles?
(via PBS Eons) An asteroid impact triggered the K-Pg mass extinction, wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs, ending the Age of Reptiles, and ushering in the Age of Mammals. But why was it the mammals who ...