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The whale’s journey from land to sea
An animated journey through deep time tracing how whales evolved from land-dwelling ancestors into creatures of the sea.
Watch millions of years of whale evolution unfold in one beautifully animated stretch.
Watch as the whale becomes itself: slowly, slowly, from land to sea, through deep time.
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