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How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land | Life and Death on Pangea
Season 9
Episode 2
The first herbivorous vertebrates evolve on the side of the amniote family tree leading to mammals. Alongside them come apex predators, like Dimetrodon. But the Early Permian Period ends in a mystery: is it an extinction event or just a fossil gap?
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