Proving a negative is a fools errand. The fossil record developed thus far doesn't support it. Additionally there is such intelligence as the Octopus which has an evolutionary split much earlier than mammals and birds.
The last common ancestor of [humans] and octopuses is a flatworm that
trawled the sea floor 750 million years ago. This is the most recent
creature that we both have a direct line of descent from – it represents
the point at which we diverged down separate evolutionary pathways. To
illustrate just how early this was, this was 80 million years before any
animal showed bilateral symmetry – the familiar body plan with a defined
top and bottom, and right and left; 350 million years before tetrapods –
the first four legged creatures that gave rise to all birds, reptiles,
mammals and amphibians – came into existence; and 500 million years before
the emergence of dinosaurs.
https://eusci.org.uk/2020/06/22/an-alien-in-our-sea-a-look-a...Nice book about the topic is "The Deep History of Ourselves" by Joseph LeDoux.
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-History-Ourselves-Microbes-Consc...