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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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