Name: Nick Baker's Weird Creatures: Marsupial Mole
Uploaded: 2010-03-03T16:00:00-08:00
Duration: 48 min
Description: Nick travels to Australia's Red Centre on the trail of one of the weirdest desert diggers, the Marsupial Mole. To Nick's astonishment he discovers that what is known about this mole is very little.

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