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it's the worst day in the history of
life on earth a cataclysm that ends the
age of the dynasty
if they hadn't met their destruction our
story never would have begun from the
ashes a band of survivors rises to
become bigger nimbly and smarter than
any that came before our tribe the
mammals it was only after you lose the
dinosaurs that mammals really exploded
to the diversity of forms that we see
today
[Music]
what happened after the impact how did
life search back the clues have been
elusive you could go your entire career
and not find a skull from this time
period that's how rare they are but now
comes a remarkable discovery there's
just nothing like picking up something
and finding out it's something amazing
it's like winning the lottery BAM
we get a peg an unprecedented trove of
fossils reveals a turning point in the
history of life the that moment of rapid
mammal evolution is effectively the
trigger to our existence here on planet
Earth
rise of the mammals on Nova