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Eons (2017)
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Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino guide viewers on an enlightening exploration of Earth's biological history in Eons. The journey spans from the Archaean Eon, marking life's inception, through the Mesozoic Era—famous for its dinosaurs—culminating at the conclusion of the last Ice Age. The hosts delve into the fascinating evolutionary paths of mammals, including humans and contemporary species, sharing insights from their expertise in paleontology. Each episode offers a captivating glimpse into the intricate tapestry of life’s development over eons.
1. The Trouble With Trilobites
2. When Did the First Flower Bloom?
3. The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
4. Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
5. What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
6. The Story of Saberteeth
7. That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
8. The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
9. Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
10. The Extinction That Never Happened
11. The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
12. The Age of Giant Insects
13. History's Most Powerful Plants
14. How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
15. When The Earth Was Purple
16. 'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
17. When Whales Walked
18. An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
19. A Brief History of Geologic Time
20. The Search for the Earliest Life
21. The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
22. The Last Time the Globe Warmed
23. What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
24. When Giant Fungi Ruled
1. How Two Microbes Changed History
2. The Time Terror Birds Invaded
3. Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew
4. The Great Snake Debate
5. The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
6. From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
7. How Sex Became a Thing
8. The Other Explosion You Should Know About
9. How the Turtle Got Its Shell
10. What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
11. The Most Useful Fossils in the World
12. Inside the Dinosaur Library
13. What Was the Ancestor of Everything?
14. How the Squid Lost Its Shell
15. How the Chalicothere Split In Two
16. The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
17. The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
18. From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
19. That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
20. Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
21. Where Did Viruses Come From?
22. When Fish First Breathed Air
23. How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
24. FAQs From Our First Year
25. When Insects First Flew
26. The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake
27. When Fish Wore Armor
28. When Birds Had Teeth
29. How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
30. How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
31. The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
32. Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
33. When We First Walked
34. Did Raptorex Really Exist?
35. Can We Get DNA From Fossils?
36. When Giant Amphibians Reigned
37. Your Place in the Primate Family Tree
38. The Two People We're All Related To
39. When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
40. When Birds Stopped Flying
41. When Camels Roamed North America
42. How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
43. When Sharks Swam the Great Plains
44. When Apes Conquered Europe
45. Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
1. When Humans Were Prey
2. How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
3. The Humans That Lived Before Us
4. The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
5. The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
6. How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
7. The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
8. The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
9. When We First Made Tools
10. When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
11. When We Tamed Fire
12. The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
13. The Croc That Ran on Hooves
14. When We Took Over the World
15. The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
16. The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
17. The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
18. How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
19. When the Synapsids Struck Back
20. When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
21. When We Met Other Human Species
22. How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
23. How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
24. When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
25. Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
26. The Missing Link That Wasn’t
27. The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
28. When Bats Took Flight
29. How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
30. When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
31. When Antarctica Was Green
32. The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
33. When Hobbits Were Real
34. Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
35. How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
36. When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
37. Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
38. The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
39. The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
1. That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
2. The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
3. The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
4. How South America Made the Marsupials
5. A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
6. When the Rainforests Collapsed
7. How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
8. When the Sahara Was Green
9. When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
10. How the Egg Came First
11. How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
12. When a Billion Years Disappeared
13. The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
14. How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
15. How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
16. The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years
17. How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals
18. When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
19. The World Before Plate Tectonics
20. When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
21. How the Walrus Got Its Tusks
22. The Story of the Dino Stampede
23. The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
24. The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
25. How We Figured Out Fermentation
26. The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
27. How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
28. The Sea Monster from the Andes
29. When Rodents Had Horns
30. The First and Last North American Primates
31. How Plants Became Carnivores
32. How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
33. Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
34. How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
35. The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
36. How Humans Lost Their Fur
37. When Lizards Took Over the World
38. When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
39. The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
1. What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
2. The Reign of the Hell Ants
3. The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
4. When We First Talked
5. The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
6. The Genes We Lost Along the Way
7. Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
8. How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
9. How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
10. How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
11. How To Survive the Little Ice Age
12. When Crocs Thrived in the Seas
13. When Trees Took Over the World
14. How Weasels Got Skinny
15. Where Are All The Squid Fossils?
16. Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
17. The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
18. The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
19. Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
20. How the Starfish Got Its Arms
21. The Creature That Stumped Darwin
22. How Pollination Got Going Twice
23. How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
24. How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
25. When Mammals Only Went Out At Night
26. How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean
27. How Dinosaurs Coupled Up
28. When It Was Too Hot for Leaves
29. Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
30. The Fossil Record In Your Mouth
31. When Pterosaurs Walked
1. How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
2. Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
3. How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
4. How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
5. How Horses Went From Food To Friends
6. Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
7. Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
8. Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
9. Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
10. Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
11. Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
12. A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
13. When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
14. Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
15. Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
16. The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
17. The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
18. The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
19. Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
20. After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
21. Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
22. Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
23. An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
24. How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
25. We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
26. Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
27. The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
28. Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
29. Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
30. An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
31. When Ants Domesticated Fungi
32. The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
33. Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
34. Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
35. What is the most successful human species? #shorts
36. Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
37. This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
38. What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
39. How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
40. Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
41. Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
42. This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
43. Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
44. There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
45. When Giant Millipedes Reigned
46. How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
47. Why Does Caffeine Exist?
48. This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
49. Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
50. You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
51. This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
52. Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
53. How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
54. The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
55. Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
56. A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
57. A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
58. Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
59. Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
60. Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
61. When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
62. Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
63. Where Did Water Come From?
64. Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
65. Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
66. Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
67. Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
68. Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts