What Are You Going to See?

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Even humanity's most impressive monuments won't make it. If the entire history of animal life on land were equal to the length of a day, the surface of the negev desert would only be about six minutes old. It turns out that the oldest existing surface that's still the surface,. which is about eighto one point seven million years old. And that's the oldest surface onearth.

Was there a technologically advanced species living on Earth long before humans? And if one had existed, how would we know?

This is the first episode of our new four-part series, Lost Worlds.

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