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3.62sWell, we swam away and then we came back.
2.9sIt's been an interesting life.
5.37sAnd the best part is, it had a happy ending.
4.25sNARRATOR: And so the endless circle of life comes to an end,
2.03smeaningless and grim.
2.45sWhy did they live, and why did they die?
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1.05sNo reason.
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2.44sNARRATOR: The isolated Galapagos Islands.
3.2sA veritable pageant of evolutionary science.
3.3sHome to dozens of species found nowhere else,
3.1ssuch as Darwin's finches and the marine iguana.
1.93sAlso the blue-footed booby!
4.12sThat's fairly interesting! Note the blue coloration of the...
2.3sOf all the creatures in the Galapagos,
4.82snone is rarer or more tragic than the Pinta Island tortoise.
3.54sOnly a single living specimen is known to exist,
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