How Nature Created Unicorns, Dragons and Sea Monsters

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Everything on Earth evolves as a product of its environment. So when conditions are a certain way, we get scary large apex predators we call “monsters."

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Previous Episode:

How Early Civilizations Created Monsters From Dinosaur Bones: http://www.seeker.com/how-early-civil...

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Sources:

Predator-Prey Relationships:
http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/c...

“A predator is an organism that eats another organism. The prey is the organism which the predator eats. Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit."

Gigantism & Dwarfism On Islands:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolutio...

“Island giants are aplenty: Komodo has its dragons. Madagascar has its giant hissing cockroach. Until about 1,000 years ago, New Zealand had its colossal bird, the moa."

Beware Of The Animals…:
http://www.theguardian.com/environmen...

“The wall around the Virungas National Park in Rwanda is far from finished, but already it stretches for 100km. Every day it grows as villagers add volcanic rock to the perimeter."

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