If you like learning about evolution, you'll love "The Heart of Pangaea."

Follow Robyn and her imaginary friend Ed into a magical world within her subconscious. All manner of prehistoric animals coexist, but is there also a cure for her dying mother?

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An illegal whaling crew stranded on the Arctic sea ice, their ship sabotaged by one of their own.

Driven to crime by a world ravaged by climate change and haunted by their pasts.

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That's right! While in the egg, yellow-spotted salamanders form a symbiotic relationship with algae which live inside its cells.

This makes it the only known animal to photosynthesise.

It allows eggs to be laid in water with low oxygen, which usually means fewer predators.

This is Tanystropheus, a Triassic archosauromorph.

Its long neck was stiff with teeth adapted to hunting fish, yet it was poorly adapted to swimming.

A prominent theory is that it used its neck like a fishing rod, snatching fish while remaining on shore.

Art by Mark Witton.

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Desmatosuchus was a herbivorous crocodile relative from the Late Triassic.

It had curious features; like its semi-toothless jaws and large shoulder spikes.

Art by Literalmente Miguel and Darren Pepper

Richard Owen: a complex man.

A talented scientist and one of the defining early paleontologists; even coining the name "dinosaur."

Yet, also ruthless and underhanded, having stolen credit for various finds by Gideon Mantell and engaging in a bitter feud with Charles Darwin.

Could Velociraptor fly?

After all, it had the kind of feathers we tend to associate with flight.

Sadly not, but the "flight feathers" tells us Velociraptor was secondarily flightless.

I.e. they descended from flying animals and lost the ability to fly.

A marsupial apex predator?

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If you like paleontology, you'll love "The Heart of Pangaea."

Follow Robyn and her imaginary friend Ed as they venture into a magical world within her subconscious. All manner of prehistoric animals coexist, but is there also a cure for her dying mother?

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And if you like dinosaurs, check out "The Lazarus Taxa."

It follows the first scientific expedition through time to the Late Cretaceous. Here, our crew have more than just dinosaurs to contend with, but also a dark conspiracy.

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