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Name: Illinois Ancient Swamps Reveal A Lost Tropical World
Uploaded: 2025-08-25T17:42:30.000-04:00
Duration: 46 s
Channel: The Weather Channel
Description: More than 300 million years ago, Illinois was alive with tropical swamps and shallow seas, now immortalized in the world-famous Mazon Creek fossil site. Professor Dr. Jim Schiffbauer explains what makes these findings so extraordinary and helps us imagine the other-worldly ecosystems of the past.

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Footage from the historic city of Santiago de Cuba captures the power from Hurricane Melissa’s winds. More than 700,000 residents were evacuated from eastern Cuba as the storm approached.

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Cubans Dealing With Devastation From Hurricane Melissa

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