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A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth | Life and Death on Pangea
Season 9
Episode 4
In the Late Permian Period, increasingly mammal-like traits were gradually emerging in our ancient relatives. The first saber-teeth and tusks evolved, and our ancestors, the cynodonts, appeared. And this all happened before the time of the dinosaurs.
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