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\nBack 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.\nBack 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.\n
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11:41
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12th - Higher Ed
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2019
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English
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dinosaurs, fossils, islands, europe, years, predators, rodents, species, cats, paleontology, john green, italy
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dinos, paleo, scishow, eons, pbs, pbs digital studios, hank green, complexly, natural history, mediterranean sea, giants, body sizes, geographic isolation, miocene, gargano, mikrotia fauna, scontrone, insular dwarfism, insular gigantism, foster’s rule, deinogalerix, prongdeer, tyto gigantea, owl, hamster, hedgehog, garganornis, hattomys gargantua, hoplitomeryx, dino gallerix, taito gigantia, giant owl, recent deposits, fosters rule, land bridge, gargano aetis, island environments, hedgehog family, giant species, larger prey, small, island, smaller, larger, mediterranean, land, isolated, areas, bigger, sizes
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