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What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
Season 1
Episode 23
Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared.
9:14
How did ants take over the world?
9:31
This is how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period.
8:03
What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
8:10
About 6,000 years ago, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush savannah in Africa.
9:01
The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works.
11:03
Another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.
8:03
In between two islands of Indonesia, there’s a line that is both real and not real.
8:40
From an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?
8:52
For plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better
7:16
What’s the real story of the dodo?
9:54
A new group of predators began to hunt nautiloids
9:11
Some of the most important genes were once considered genomic junk.