The Rise And Reign of Mammals
Discussion with author Steve Brusatte about his book: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals.
Transcript
00:00 And also thanks again for helping to promote the book.
00:03 And I'll say again,
00:04 "The Rise and Reign of the Mammals" is out today
00:06 behind me, all about the animals
00:08 that took over from the dinosaurs.
00:10 And really this is our history.
00:12 These are our cousins and there we got some of them
00:14 on screen.
00:15 These are some of the wacky creatures
00:16 that have lived in the past,
00:18 that they're not dinosaurs, this is us.
00:21 This is our family.
00:22 So I tell that story in the book,
00:24 but for dinosaur fans,
00:26 there's quite a lot of dinosaur content in the book too.
00:28 So I got to talk about the 150 million years
00:30 mammals and dinosaurs had to coexist side by side,
00:33 which is a cool story.
00:34 Anyway, I won't market the book too much.
00:37 (laughs)
00:38 I'm trying to do-
00:39 - That's right, yeah.
00:40 We're posting a review, our reviews on life science,
00:42 so our readers can check it out.