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Eons

2017

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EP1 How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side Jan 11, 2022

Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us.

EP2 Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) Jan 19, 2022

The Snake Detection Hypothesis proposes that the ability to quickly spot and avoid snakes is deeply embedded in primates, including us - an evolutionary consequence of the danger snakes have posed to us over millions of years.

EP3 How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs Jan 27, 2022

We often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren’t the only two options. So why would we expect dinosaurs to have only been carnivores or herbivores, with the occasional omnivore thrown in the mix?

EP4 How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again Feb 08, 2022

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

EP5 How Horses Went From Food To Friends Feb 16, 2022

Do our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these questions has been tricky, as we’ve needed to bring together evidence from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA…Because, as it turns out, the history of humans and horses has been a pretty wild ride.

EP6 Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) Feb 23, 2022

Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their “hands” and five on their “feet.” But no species of vertebrates have more than five digits, let alone eight!

EP7 Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts Mar 02, 2022

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

EP8 Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts Mar 03, 2022

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

EP9 Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts Mar 04, 2022

Could humans survive during the Precambrian?

EP10 Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts Mar 07, 2022

Don’t be fooled by convergent evolution.

EP11 Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts Mar 08, 2022

Why do human knees suck?

EP12 A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts Mar 10, 2022

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

EP13 When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands Mar 15, 2022

The ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.

EP14 Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts Mar 17, 2022

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EP15 Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts Mar 18, 2022

Would you have survived the K-Pg Impact?

EP16 The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal Mar 22, 2022

A truly enormous ichthyosaur around the size of a modern sperm whale, reached its size within just a few million years of taking to the water - a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.

EP17 The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts Mar 25, 2022

Thylacines are definitely extinct!

EP18 The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last Mar 29, 2022

Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.

EP19 Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts Mar 31, 2022

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EP20 After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts Apr 04, 2022

The bird that evolved twice!

EP21 Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts Apr 05, 2022

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EP22 Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts Apr 06, 2022

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EP23 An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts Apr 08, 2022

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

EP24 How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple Apr 13, 2022

We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s not always the case. This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, (yes, animal!) evolved from something bigger and more complex.

EP25 We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts Apr 14, 2022

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EP26 Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste Apr 20, 2022

While sour taste's original purpose was to warn vertebrates of danger, in a few animal groups, including us, its role has reversed. The taste of danger became something it was dangerous for us to avoid.

EP27 The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body Apr 27, 2022

Only a handful of Denisovan fossils have been identified. In the absence of actual body fossils, it’s impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology, right?

EP28 Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts May 02, 2022

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EP29 Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts May 03, 2022

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EP30 An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts May 04, 2022

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EP31 When Ants Domesticated Fungi May 10, 2022

While we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming?

EP32 The Curious Case of the Cave Lion May 17, 2022

A mysterious, large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent, and it’s been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats?

EP33 Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record? May 26, 2022

Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.

EP34 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.

EP35 What is the most successful human species? #shorts May 31, 2022

Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens?

EP36 Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts Jun 01, 2022

Sometimes modern problems require ancient, evolutionary solutions.

EP37 This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts Jun 02, 2022

What was this ancient pup’s last meal?

EP38 What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts Jun 03, 2022

The newest oldest saber-toothed mammal

EP39 How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?) Jun 08, 2022

In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.

EP40 Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years Jun 15, 2022

Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. We don’t even know if it’s a trace fossil, or the organism itself. So… what could it be?

EP41 Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not Jun 29, 2022

In 2003, microbiologists made a huge discovery. One that would force us to reconsider a lot of what we thought we knew about the evolution of microbial life: giant viruses.

EP42 This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts Jul 06, 2022

Microbiology goes macro with a new giant bacterium!

EP43 Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts Jul 07, 2022

Spinosaurus had dense bones!

EP44 There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts Jul 08, 2022

Guemesia: a new no-arm dino

EP45 When Giant Millipedes Reigned Jul 13, 2022

This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big??

EP46 How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles Jul 21, 2022

Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible - and even striking - if you know where and how to look for it.

EP47 Why Does Caffeine Exist? Jul 28, 2022

Today, billions of people around the world start their day with caffeine. But how and why did the ability to produce this molecule independently evolve in multiple, distantly-related lineages of flowering plants, again and again?

EP48 This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts Aug 03, 2022

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

EP49 Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts Aug 03, 2022

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

EP50 You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts Aug 05, 2022

Flesh-eating bees exist!

EP51 This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts Aug 05, 2022

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient art workshop

EP52 Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? Aug 11, 2022

There is one - and only one - group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of Africa and Asia, the apes, and us.

EP53 How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked Aug 18, 2022

Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?

EP54 The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies Aug 23, 2022

This fungus was actually manipulating ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do, something strange, yet specific…

EP55 Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts Aug 31, 2022

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

EP56 A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts Sep 08, 2022

Disaster in the great plains!

EP57 A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts Sep 09, 2022

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

EP58 Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts Sep 13, 2022

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

EP59 Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts Sep 14, 2022

Wisdom teeth can be such a pain

EP60 Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts Sep 16, 2022

Paranthropus got chomped by a leopard

EP61 When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts Sep 17, 2022

We didn’t always wear clothes!

EP62 Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts Sep 22, 2022

Ancient sperm whale heads belonged on every shark-cuterie board

EP63 Where Did Water Come From? Sep 27, 2022

Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.

EP64 Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land Oct 04, 2022

Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water, others were turning around and diving right back in.

EP65 Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts Oct 05, 2022

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

EP66 Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts Oct 07, 2022

Sometimes evolution is completely predictable.

EP67 Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts Oct 10, 2022

Shanidar 1 got by with a little help from his friends

EP68 Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts Oct 14, 2022

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

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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Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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