Mammal Fossils Fill in Missing Piece of the Timeline of Life
Clip: Season 46 Episode 17 | 3m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
This trove of mammal fossils paints a timeline of life after the dinosaurs died.
Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the dinosaurs.
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Mammal Fossils Fill in Missing Piece of the Timeline of Life
Clip: Season 46 Episode 17 | 3m 35sVideo has Closed Captions
Paleontologists analyze concretions—hard orbs of minerals that can collect around material like bone—and discover fossils of mammals that lived on Earth just after an asteroid killed the dinosaurs.
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