Fossilised glider takes the origin of mammals back to the Triassic

Sweet. Mammalogy was one of my favorite classes back in my college years.

Mammal of the gaps?

Fascinating!

Incredible!

Down thumb taxonomic hair splitting.

Wow

Oh, is that why all the best echolocators are mammals?

Nice video. Short and sweet, and I felt like I learnt a little something.

Mammals are cool.

So, couldn't they have evolved the advanced ear structure separately? Like two separate evolutionary trees can also lead to the same, right?

I thought they knew this for a while. IDK I just remember hearing mammals originated in the Triassic alongside dinosaurs but were not commonplace until a couple million years after the extinction.

Ears, shmears! Check if they have boobies! Prob solv.

The triassic was so fascinating. Crocodilomorphs, dinosaurs and mammals all vying to dominate.
Basal mammals were the largest herbivores. Dinosaurs had the largest omnivores. Archosaurs dominated apex predators niches and medium sized herbivores niche. Both dinosaurs and mammals had medium sized predators.

Aaah gliding mammals already evolved since the mesozoic, and yet we only have one flying mammal today. Dis sucks.