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Actual article title “How mammals won the dinosaurs' world” makes a little more sense.

• CharlesW 4y ago
  Initial "How"s are auto-deleted during the HN submission process. Tip: It can be re-added by immediately editing the title after submission.
  • Tagbert 4y ago
    In this case it took a pretty straightforward title and made it confusing.
    • dTal 4y ago
      Clbuttic case of buttumptions failing.
• rikroots 4y ago
  I think the title should have been "How mammals reconquered the world" as mammals descend directly from cynodonts and their relatives which were the dominant life form before the permian-triassic disaster. Cynodonts are synapsids, one of the two major branches of the amniote vertebrates. Birds descend from dinosaurs, which descend from sauropsids - the other major amniote branch. So the dinosaurs stole it from us because: disaster, then we stole it back because: another disaster. I adore Wikipedia! Of course if the doom-mongers are to be believed and our climate crisis becomes a runaway hothouse which devastates life across land and oceans in major disaster fashion then the birds are well-placed to take over again. I've never trusted them crows!