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Eons

Eons (2017)

June. 26,2017
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Eons

2017  / TV-Y7

Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

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Seasons 6 : 2022

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Episode 4 - How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
February. 08,2022

As revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?

Episode 7 - Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
March. 02,2022

There used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go?

Episode 8 - Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
March. 03,2022

Dire wolves aren’t actually wolves but what they are might be even cooler.

Episode 9 - Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
March. 04,2022

Could humans survive during the Precambrian?

Episode 10 - Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
March. 07,2022

Don’t be fooled by convergent evolution.

Episode 11 - Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
March. 08,2022

Why do human knees suck?

Episode 12 - A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
March. 10,2022

And it’s been reported that one of the geologists started it on purpose?

Episode 14 - Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
March. 17,2022

Episode 15 - Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
March. 18,2022

Would you have survived the K-Pg Impact?

Episode 17 - The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
March. 25,2022

Thylacines are definitely extinct!

Episode 19 - Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
March. 31,2022

Episode 20 - After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
April. 04,2022

The bird that evolved twice!

Episode 21 - Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
April. 05,2022

Episode 22 - Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
April. 06,2022

Episode 23 - An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
April. 08,2022

I will pass on the parasitic mind-controlling mushroom, thanks

Episode 25 - We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
April. 14,2022

Episode 28 - Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
May. 02,2022

Episode 29 - Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
May. 03,2022

Episode 30 - An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
May. 04,2022

Episode 34 - Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
May. 27,2022

There’s something weird going on at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in what’s now Utah.

Episode 35 - What is the most successful human species? #shorts
May. 31,2022

Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens?

Episode 36 - Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
June. 01,2022

Sometimes modern problems require ancient, evolutionary solutions.

Episode 37 - This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
June. 02,2022

What was this ancient pup’s last meal?

Episode 38 - What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
June. 03,2022

The newest oldest saber-toothed mammal

Episode 42 - This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
July. 06,2022

Microbiology goes macro with a new giant bacterium!

Episode 43 - Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
July. 07,2022

Spinosaurus had dense bones!

Episode 44 - There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
July. 08,2022

Guemesia: a new no-arm dino

Episode 48 - This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
August. 03,2022

One of the biggest earthquakes humans ever experienced happened around 3800 years ago in what's now northern Chile.

Episode 49 - Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
August. 03,2022

We have no idea where they were all this time, or who stole and returned them and why.

Episode 50 - You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
August. 05,2022

Flesh-eating bees exist!

Episode 51 - This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
August. 05,2022

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient art workshop

Episode 55 - Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
August. 31,2022

Did you know that fossils can get sick? – Specifically with Pyrite Disease

Episode 56 - A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
September. 08,2022

Disaster in the great plains!

Episode 57 - A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
September. 09,2022

80 years ago, a bunch of fossils of ancient humans disappeared.

Episode 58 - Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
September. 13,2022

Congrats! You just found a wombat burrow. And the cubes are its poop.

Episode 59 - Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
September. 14,2022

Wisdom teeth can be such a pain

Episode 60 - Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
September. 16,2022

Paranthropus got chomped by a leopard

Episode 61 - When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
September. 17,2022

We didn’t always wear clothes!

Episode 62 - Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
September. 22,2022

Ancient sperm whale heads belonged on every shark-cuterie board

Episode 65 - Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
October. 05,2022

We might’ve been wrong about how this saber-toothed cat looked

Episode 66 - Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
October. 07,2022

Sometimes evolution is completely predictable.

Episode 67 - Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
October. 10,2022

Shanidar 1 got by with a little help from his friends

Episode 68 - Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts
October. 14,2022

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you.

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Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

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