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    Eons
            That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
                
                    
                        
                            Season 1
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 43
                        
                    
                
            
            
            At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.
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