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shrew-like

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Evidently the shrew-like mammals of the time were better suited to the post-impact environment.

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Evidently the shrew-like mammals of the time were better suited to the post-impact environment.

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Evidently the shrew-like mammals of the time were better suited to the post-impact environment.

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I'm pretty sure this doesn't challenge the idea that, at the time, mammals were all still small shrew-like jobbies.

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This doesn't tell you how or even whether you could end up with an elephant, a bat or a whale from a shrew-like ancestor.

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Colour vision is not much help under low light conditions which is the reason our distant shrew-like ancestors lost their colour vision in the first place.

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Our ancestors at the time were small shrew-like creatures.

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Seeing as shrew-like animals are the oldest species of mammals and date all the way back to Triassic era, if you killed off one rodent species another would necessarily take its place.

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>> Colour vision is not much help under low light conditions which is the reason our distant shrew-like ancestors lost their colour vision in the first place.

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The similarities between Mixodectes at 62 Ma, the shrew-like mammal at 66 Ma, and that early mammalian predecessor at 193 Ma are a fine example of how slow evolution can be when ecological niches are otherwise occupied.

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Evidently the shrew-like mammals of the time were better suited to the post-impact environment.