Mammal Takeover!: Journey through the Cenozoic Era
Special thanks to Sam Easy and Rosemary Mosco for their assistance and specialist knowledge PUBLISHER'S NOTE This is a work of fiction Names characters places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead business establishments events or locales is entirely coincidental
Hup Oof Do you wanna make snow angels with me Ronnie Leave me here to my misery No Francesca you go ahead I'm too cold Ha ha okay
Ugh how did my ancestors ever survive in the Ice Age How are humans still so bad at dealing with cold weather What's that Miss Lernin Are those questions about human evolution I hear Have you been in the snow this whole time Yeah I've just been making tunnels Really important grown up stuff Anyway you were wondering about the dawn of humanity en I was Didn't humans evolve in an ice age Why don't We have better traits for staying warm when it's cold outside Why have my ancestors failed me 2
Giant bugs now times The first humans evolved in Africa which was quite warm at the time and definitely not covered in ice That is true we did evolve during the current ice age but that doesn't mean we evolved in a place where we needed to handle cold temperatures Though I suppose Earth was cooler at the time than it was when the dinosaurs died out and during the millions of years after that Those were some pretty warm years OF LIFE Wait there were millions of years between the dinosaurs dying out and the Ice Age TIMELINE FLOPPY LANO ANIMALS ICE AGE dinosaurs WEIRO OCEAN And it was warm Oh yes many many millions of years passed between those two events T take me to these warm times Soon after the dinosaurs died out the Earth was There were rainforests a tropical wonderland all the way to the poles teeming with some of the most fascinating ancient beasts the ancestors of all the mammals and birds and reptiles we live alongside today 3
