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Walking with Beasts · Season 1, Episode 15

Narrator in “Unfinished Business”

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Against the odds, she and her calf have survived. Sadly, what the have been through is merely the start of the climate chaos to follow, which will end the Eocene period and cause the largest extinction since the death of the dinosaurs. As devastating as any meteor will be the catastrophic disruption of the oceans' currents caused by the gradual freezing of Antarctica. Like a giant El Nino, only much, much worse. 20% of living things on earth will die out. Whales as a group will survive, but Basilosaurus and her kind will not be among them.

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