Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered that mammals began adapting to terrestrial lifestyles millions of years prior to the dinosaur-extinguishing asteroid impact. The study utilized limb bone fossils to reveal that ecological changes in the late Cretaceous spurred this evolutionary shift, particularly due to the emergence of flowering plants.
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