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.

Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

12m 12s

After having solved the small matter of evolution by natural selection - becoming one of the most famous scientists in the world in the process - Charles Darwin turned his focus to a different personal obsession…

Episodes

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    Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

    S7 E21 - 12m 12s

    After having solved the small matter of evolution by natural selection - becoming one of the most famous scientists in the world in the process - Charles Darwin turned his focus to a different personal obsession…

  • Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?

    S7 E20 - 12m 29s

    This is the hundred-year tale of how an unlikely bunch of bottom-dwelling marine critters helped reveal that ocean basins are basically reincarnated every few hundred million years.

  • Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?

    S7 E19 - 8m 36s

    Unlike in fiction, giant whales do not emerge fully-formed from the ocean deep. So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from? How did such a large predator live? And what caused the titan to die out? The answer may lie in an appetite so large, it may have eaten itself to extinction...So, where did Livyatan melvillei come from?

  • When Red Pandas Roamed North America: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    When Red Pandas Roamed North America

    S7 E18 - 9m 41s

    How did a relative of the red panda end up in North America? What can this tell us about how long ago – and how many times – North America was connected to Europe and Asia?

  • Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air

    S7 E17 - 8m 10s

    Spiders and their ancestors have been driving an arms race that began before either stepped foot onto land and resulted in the first powered flight on Earth. But how did this competition of webs versus wings drive such a massive evolutionary adaptation into an entirely new realm?

  • The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth

    S7 E16 - 12m 38s

    Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it.

  • Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?

    S7 E15 - 9m 59s

    An asteroid impact triggered the K-Pg mass extinction, wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs, ending the Age of Reptiles, and ushering in the Age of Mammals. But why was it the mammals who triumphed?

  • How Mountains Make Evolution Weird: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Mountains Make Evolution Weird

    S7 E14 - 10m 9s

    Mountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making evolution weird. And they would eventually reveal something even stranger about a group of mammals even closer to home: primates.

  • The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

    S7 E13 - 10m 39s

    Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northeastern China, most seemingly posed in perfect rest. This has prompted comparisons to a famous archeological site where behavior is similarly well preserved: the site of Pompeii, a town crystallized by volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago.

  • When Neandertals Became Apex Predators: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    When Neandertals Became Apex Predators

    S7 E11 - 11m 50s

    Climbing to the summit of the Eurasian food chain was one of the Neandertals’ most impressive evolutionary feats, but in the end, it may have actually been what doomed them.

Extras + Features

  • A Quick Introduction to Eons: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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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