Science and Nature

Eons

Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, 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.

Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident

8m 19s

It’s beginning to look like our success on land, and that of all tetrapods, from frogs to dogs to dinosaurs, was just a lucky side-effect of fish trying to stay fish.

Episodes

  • Do Chins Make Us Human?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Do Chins Make Us Human?

    S8 E3 - 12m 7s

    You share a trait with every single human who's ever lived – but no other animal on Earth has it. It's not your big brain, or your opposable thumbs... it's actually this little shelf on your face that we call a chin. And here's the thing: we're not totally sure why it exists.

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    The Golden Age of Sharks

    S8 E2 - 12m 40s

    But why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during this period, only to lose most of that diversity forever?

  • That Time Earth was Sticky: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    That Time Earth was Sticky

    S8 E1 - 10m 45s

    "The Cretaceous Resinous Interval, a 54-million year period where amber was preserved in hundreds of locations across the world, was a gooey, gummy point in Earth's history - and then amber suddenly disappeared for another 20 million years.
    So, we have to ask: what exactly made this time period so very, very sticky?"

Extras + Features

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    A Quick Introduction to Eons

    S1 - 1m 28s

    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

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