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When India Was An Island

Season 7 Episode 1 | 11m 04s

We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, and how, ultimately, when India smashed back into Asia, it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another.

Aired: 08/05/24
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