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How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
Season 2
Episode 30
They have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the world.
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