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Why Are The Bees Dying?

Why Are The Bees Dying?

Season 3 Episode 33
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How Does A Canyon Become Grand?

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Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Season 3 Episode 36
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Why Do We Laugh?

Why Do We Laugh?

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Cuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise

Cuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise

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My Date With A Giant Pacific Octopus!

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Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?

Season 3 Episode 32

Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to evolution, which came first, the bees or the flowers?

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