What Africa's Deserts Hid: The Lost Animals of Ancient Egypt @ryv

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Today you’ll find out:
Where did bears in Africa come from?
What animal was the Sphinx modeled after?
And could these creatures ever come back…?
Extinct animals of ancient Africa.

0:00 Introduction
0:38 The bubal hartebeest
3:55 North African elephants
9:36 The aurochs
13:19 The Barbary lion
17:31 The Atlas bear
20:30 Mysterious ancient birds
25:41 The Sahara oryx
29:00 The addax

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