The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls

Eons

5th March 2019 10 mins Season 3 Episode 7

Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in the very strange, but very real, powers of natural selection.

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Season 3 · Episode 8

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world.

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