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When the Amazon Flowed Backwards

Season 7 Episode 10 | 11m 25s

What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it? And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the world’s mightiest rivers between then and now?

Aired: 12/02/24
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When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments.
We may have planet-shattering asteroids...
What doomed the Neandertals?
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?
Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance.
Where are all the east coast dinosaurs?
Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine.
The Himalayas changed everything.
What led to the creation of the trunk?
What was the first ever drink?