palaeomammalogy

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studying dead animals from the stone age. scientists poke around in graveyards looking for bones.

found a mammoth tusk near denver, looks like it's thousands of years old

i dug up some feral dog teeth and sent 'em to a lab

this fossil is older than humans, so how do they talk about civilization?

the study of extinct mammals. basically trying to figure out what died off and why.

mastodons went extinct because humans hunted 'em all the way to extinction

climate change killed off a bunch of species before humans even showed up

dinosaur mass extinctions wiped out 75% of life on earth

paleontology focused on mammals. these guys have been around for like a billion years.

triceratops were the same size as trucks and lived in north america

synapsids are proto-mammals that show up 305 million years ago

the first true mammal appears 200-210 million years back