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This is the story of that time between the dinosaurs and us. There were sixty six million years in there, and nobody gives a flying squirrel about it, but it's actually pretty fascinating.
Mammals happened, for one, which is something mammals should care about. The world got absurdly hot for a while, but it didn't seem to really bother anyone at the time, and a bunch of ferns nipped that problem in the bud by growing on the surface of the ocean. I swear that will make sense.
Cats and grass become a thing. Maybe that doesn't make you happy, but it makes me giddy.
Then it's kinda a story of the world getting colder for a while until the ice age(s). That's a pretty awesome period, it's when humans actually became humans for the most part, and it gets me strangely excited. There's also saber-tooth tigers and woolly mammoths, and ...