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Eons
The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
Season 2
Episode 14
Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in the very strange, but very real, powers of natural selection.
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