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When the Rainforests Collapsed

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When the Sahara Was Green

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The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

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When We Took Over the World

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When a Billion Years Disappeared

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How South America Made the Marsupials

Season 2 Episode 50

Throughout the Cenozoic Era -- the era we’re in now -- marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents.

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