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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

Season 2 Episode 15
8:33
When We First Made Tools

When We First Made Tools

Season 2 Episode 16
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When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

Season 2 Episode 17
11:38
When We Tamed Fire

When We Tamed Fire

Season 2 Episode 18
11:46
The Croc That Ran on Hooves

The Croc That Ran on Hooves

Season 2 Episode 22
8:41
When the Synapsids Struck Back

When the Synapsids Struck Back

Season 2 Episode 26
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The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)

Season 2 Episode 12

In order to understand where hearts came from, we have to go back to the earliest common ancestor of everything that has a heart. It took hundreds of millions of years, and countless different iterations of the same basic structure to lead to the heart that you have today.