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The first true mammals were insectivores that appeared about 225 million years ago in the Mesozoic Era (age of dinosaurs). The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, about 66 million years ago, killed off 75% of the species of living organisms, and opened niches for mammals to proliferate and diversify.

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