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When We First Made Tools

When We First Made Tools

Season 2 Episode 16
9:08
Ancient Fauna, Flora & Fungi

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
10:10
When We Met Other Human Species

When We Met Other Human Species

Season 2 Episode 28
12:56
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice

How Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice

Season 2 Episode 29
10:29
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Eons

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

Season 2 Episode 15

The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world.

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