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The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)

Season 2 Episode 23

Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes?

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