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Some more amazing images from episode 2

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Cheetah sprint

The secret to the cheetah’s speed lies in the make up of its spine.

  • Cheetah skeleton
  • White-cheeked gibbon skeleton
  • Ben Garrod and Professor Susan Evans of UCL
  • Gorilla spine
  • Cheetah sprint
  • Milk snake
  • X-ray of a horse’s hoof
  • Not close relatives
  • Massive mole humerus

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