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Podcast: Travel with Rick Steves
Episode: 580a Villages of Tuscany; Megafauna
Description: American-born tour guides who've settled in Tuscany explain why it's an ideal region for experiencing the essence of Italy. And the curator of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History tells us what scientists are learning about the fantastic beasts that used to roam the Earth — as they investigate why they went extinct.
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