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It's Okay to Be Smart
Inside the Largest Living Thing On Earth
Season 9
Episode 14
The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth… is a tree? Hard to believe, but it’s true. Travel with me to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to go inside the most massive species on our planet, and learn what unique and special evolutionary adaptations let them get so big.
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