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1 " Bats look and behave a whole lot differently than mice or foxes or elephants, but nobody would argue that they're not mammals. No, bats are just a weird type of mammal that evolved wings and developed the ability to fly. Birds are just a weird group of dinosaurs that did the same thing. "
― Steve Brusatte , The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
2 " Elegant in its simplicity, so far-reaching in its implications, today we regard Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection as one of fundamental rules underpinning the world as we know it. "
3 " There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this. "
4 " The triceratops was safe. It was across the river, separated by impassable rapids from the danger brewing on the opposite bank. But it could see what was about to happen and was powerless to stop it. "
5 " Then, about 34 million years ago, as the Eocene transitioned to the Oligocene, the world turned. The hothouse flipped to a coolhouse, which would eventually become an icehouse. The "
― Steve Brusatte , The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
