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Shane meets species on the brink of oblivion, and the people who won’t let them slip away.
From fossils entombed in tar to cells frozen in hope, Shane Campbell-Staton traces the arc of extinction from prehistory to the present. On an epic global journey, he meets species at the brink of oblivion… and the people who won’t give up on them.
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Episode 6 Preview
Preview: Season 2 Episode 6 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
From fossils entombed in tar to cells frozen in hope, Shane Campbell-Staton traces the arc of extinction from prehistory to the present. On an epic global journey, he meets species at the brink of oblivion… and the people who won’t give up on them.
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Surprising Moments from Human Footprint
Do you think you know what it means to be human? In Human Footprint, Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton asks us all to think again. As he discovers, the story of our impact on the world around us is more complicated — and much more surprising — than you might realize.Providing Support for PBS.org
Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Shane] Welcome to the Age of Humans.
(lion roaring) - Extinctions didn't stop happening at the end of the Pleistocene.
- [Commentator] That word extinction, it's the worst of all environmental sins.
- [Ranger] Could you imagine that we are watching the last two of their kind?
- I think I just fell in love.
- [Commentator] We are creating new tools that can be applied to stop extinctions from happening today.
(elephant trumpets) - [Ranger] The first thing that you need to change is the people.
(dramatic music)
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