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World Service,2 mins

What was the world like three million years ago?

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Fossil expert Richard Twitchett shows us some animals that were around in the Pliocene, three million years ago – the last time carbon dioxide levels were as high as they are today. (Image: Early Mastodonts Illustration, Credit: Science Photo Library)

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