The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

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Paperback | 528 pages131 x 198 x 38 | 376g

Sprechen Sie uns direkt an unter:Tel. Out of this long and rich evolutionary history came the mammals of today, including our own species and our closest cousins. brings well-known extinct species, the sabre-toothed tigers and the woolly mammoths, thrillingly back to life' - The TimesThe passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to become ascendant. How did we get here? Beginning with the earliest days of our lineage some 325 million years ago, Brusatte charts how mammals survived the asteroid that claimed the dinosaurs and made the world their own, becoming the astonishingly diverse range of animals that dominate today’s Earth. Now, picking up the narrative in the ashes of the extinction event that doomed T-rex and its kind, Brusatte explores the remarkable story of the family of animals that inherited the Earth—mammals—and brilliantly reveals that their story is every bit as fascinating and complex as that of the dinosaurs. Author(s): N/A Binding: Other, Date of Publication: 01/01/1800, Pagination: , ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781529034233, Description: But todays 6,000 mammal species - the egg-laying monotremes including the platypus, marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas that raise their tiny babies in pouches, and placentals like us, who give birth to well-developed young are simply the few survivors of a once verdant family tree, which has been pruned both by time and mass extinctions. Lot 13 & 14, Level 2, Nu Sentral Mall Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Brickfields, MPH NU Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Published on 1 June 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.
• 25 x 9 inches