Mass Extinction, 1918 Flu, Papyrus

Mass Extinction - What caused the mother of all extinctions 250 million years ago? 1918 Flu - A virus that killed up to 50 million people is brought back to life to decipher its deadliness. Profile: Cynthia Breazeal - A daring engineer designs robots to communicate and interact the way people do. Papyrus - Scraps of writings from a garbage dump in ancient Egypt reveal what life was like 2,000 years ago.

Release Date: 2005-01-25
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6
TMDb: 8.0/10
  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Runtime: 55

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