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S1E2 • Baby Animals • 2016 • Nature
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1/3 • Wild Arabia • 2013 • Nature
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Part 2 • Nature's Wonderlands: Islands of Evolution • 2016 • Nature
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3/3 • Age of Big Cats • 2018 • Nature
For nearly 4 billion years, the continents of Earth were a lifeless wasteland. But beneath the sea, our planet was teeming with life. Many strange creatures evolved, from eel-like conodonts to voracious cephalopods, until nearly all life was wiped out in our planet’s first mass extinction.
1/2 • Ancient Oceans • 2019 • Nature