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Friday, 14 November 2014

The first mammals appeared in the Late Triassic Epoch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal

The first mammals (in Kemp's sense) appeared in the Late Triassic epoch (about 225 million years ago), 40 million years after the first therapsids. They expanded out of their nocturnal insectivore niche from the mid-Jurassic onwards; Castorocauda, for example, had adaptations for swimming, digging and catching fish.

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