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How Animals Got Butts

Season 7 Episode 9
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Season 7 Episode 10
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When Neandertals Became Apex Predators

Season 7 Episode 11
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The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

Season 7 Episode 13
10:39
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How Mountains Make Evolution Weird

Season 7 Episode 14
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When Red Pandas Roamed North America

Season 7 Episode 18
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Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?

Season 7 Episode 19
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Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?

Season 7 Episode 20
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What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals?

Season 7 Episode 8

In 2003, a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost complete skeleton the size of a platypus, a find that complicated the history of mammaliaforms. It painted a picture of their explosive diversification, their mysterious disappearance, and how our own ancestors might have survived thanks to a leg up from some leafy allies…