The Mammal mania

&nbsp The Rise of mammals had many different evolutionary stories. these are things like: evolution of the whale, monkey, human and elephant. But we'll just focus on the different periods and how the animals and climate change.

Palaeocene Epoch: in this period, the world was covered in forests and had just recovered from a great ordeal; the k-t extinction. the mammals were still small, well, most of them. some lake dwellers like Ambulocetus, were around the size of a dolphin.Giant, flightless birds were the rulers of the forests. the start of mammal domination had only just begun.

Eocene Epoch: this period was following on from the one above. during a lot of this period, the evolution story of whales began, starting with lake dweller's and gradually turning into sea swimmers. one of the most famous whales of this time was Basilosaurus, even though it is classed as a whale, it looked more like a very long, very slim dolphin, they were the top sea predators at the time, but soon climate change would wipe them out and let the little whales live on to create the giants we know today. Whil;st, on land changes were happening too. the small, shrew like animals of before had turned into massive animals, they looked quit a bit like today's animals. a few examples are Andrewsarchus (a wolf- like scavenger that was really a "sheep on wolf's clothing", it also had one of the strongest bites of any carnivorous mammal, and was the biggest mammal carnivore on land.) and embolotherium (a huge, but stupid, rhino like creature that lived in herds.) and also Moeritherium (a early, very early, elephant with a very short trunk and that spent most of it's time in the water.)