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Eons
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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Hyaenodonts gave the world some of its largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals ever known.
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Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs.
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There is no missing link in our lineage, because that’s not how evolution works.