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Three million years ago, the rise of the Panamanian land bridge connected the American continents and unleashed an astonishing animal encounter. The emergence of the narrow, 400-mile-long Isthmus of Panama is one of the most important events in Earth’s history. In this new show, we reveal the story of how the area comprising the current-day Republic of Panama connected two continents – each with its own full-blown animal kingdom – separated two oceans, and transformed the world as we know it...