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Mar 2022
20m 36s

What Happened to the Dinosaurs?!

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Mindy and Guy Raz are getting to the bottom of what happened to all the dinosaurs on their trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, when they discover they've traveled back in time 66 million years! What will they discover about the meteoric event that altered life on this planet forever?! It's the Who, What, When, Where, How, and WOW of dinosaurs!!

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