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The Creature That Stumped Darwin
Season 4
Episode 6
Toxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossils would inspire a revolutionary thinker to tackle a bigger mystery than Toxodon itself: evolution.
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History Of This Two-faced Creature And What It Can Teach Us About Mass Extinction.
11:27
This small change in our appearance has helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.
7:53
It arose from rhino ancestors, but Paraceratherium took a different evolutionary path.
8:48
Aegirocassis may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician.
6:46
What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful?
7:52
We’ve only started to get to the bottom of how clubs worked and how it developed.