#  @eons PBS Eons PBS Eons posts on YouTube about history, earth, green, science the most. 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To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below During the Cretaceous Period dinosaurs were more diverse more fierce and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history there were flowers. Thank you to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS. To learn more go to http://curiositystream.com/eons Thanks to Julio Lacerda Joschua Knppe and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=13aUo5fEjNY) 2017-07-03T20:50Z 3.2M followers, 887.4K engagements "When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below All told the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live especially in winter. And yet the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered there. So how were they able to survive in this harsh environment Thanks to Nathan E. Rogers for the really great reconstruction of Nanuqsaurus. Check out Nathan's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/nathan-e-rogers This video features this paleogeographic map: Scotese" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Ier8c9WFzE) 2020-06-24T21:26Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements "How Mountains Make Evolution Weird 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George Morgan Kevin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6koLzdSves) 2025-02-11T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 413.4K engagements "Humans Heal Slow ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: rene fuqua Casey Hague Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Nicholas Arger William Sunderland Josh L Beth K Lea Nisay Eric Younge Beth-Ann Cheney Elyssa John D Elias Ashley Glenn Annemiek Arkema Willie Eric Edwards Wookiee Henderson SKS PHD IAmHere Nquiztor lyric1981 Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LX80_OVeJk4) 2025-09-18T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 262.8K engagements "When Birds Had Teeth PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out ReInventors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZRoStdiqWxauQT2RGW1Lg Experts are still arguing over whether Archaeopteryx was a true bird or a paravian dinosaur or some other kind of dino. But regardless of what side youre on how did this fascinating bird-like animal relate to todays birds It turns out its teeth were a clue that this story goes all the way back to what we now call the non-avian dinosaurs. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QGR5yOrChMA) 2018-08-07T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "What Happened To Primates In North America PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below How To Vote in Every State: https://youtube.com/HowToVoteInEveryState Early primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here So what happened to those early relatives of ours Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Nobu Tamura: https://spinops.blogspot.com/ Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist Fabrizio de Rossi:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WNL9Jp9oeYA) 2020-09-30T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/B6QeZ07Fagg Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that for a long time some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed after all Thanks to the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation Professor Bruno David Monash University and David Morgan-Mar (https://dmm.photo) for providing photographs" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zdm-6P6AdcA) 2020-09-02T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Can We Get DNA From Fossils PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In [----] scientists cracked open a piece of amber took out the body of an ancient weevil and sampled its DNA. Or at least so we thought. It took another few decades of research and a lot of take-backs before scientists could figure out how we could truly unlock the genetic secrets of the past. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie Fichtner Aldo Espinosa" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_nJdWqtMljs) 2018-10-02T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "Ancient human found ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah Grunow-Mau Walter Ray-Dulany Ruth Orr Deanna Hernandez Lianne Lairmore John Celio Kevin Lacson Christopher Samuel Douglas B Collin Dutrow Steven Kern Nick Ryhajlo Stephanie Schlea Betsy Radley Jeff Graham Nathan" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a9MQbo5CvwM) 2026-01-22T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 171.1K engagements "Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts We have no idea where they were all this time or who stole and returned them and why. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60980288" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=bXySaD8Bwa4) 2022-08-03T21:49Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements "How Animals Got Butts Find the PBS Audience Survey here: https://to.pbs.org/2024SurveyEons While the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development its story might actually end with redefining what it means to have a butthole at all. Corrections: 06:10 Starfish are actually deuterostomes Earthworms are protostomes. 06:18 Earthworms are actually protostomes Starfish are deuterostomes. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=re1RKgaVhdw) 2024-11-19T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 471.3K engagements "How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles Despite the profound changes weve 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kyle Brown Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael Haase daniel blankstein Roberto" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4twDqSNaY) 2022-07-21T21:35Z 3.2M followers, 819.8K engagements "Why doesn't Australia have an apex predator #science #australia #evolution #pbseons Meet Thylacoleo Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yxCvues05iA) 2023-03-21T16:28Z 3.2M followers, 3.2M engagements "Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution Or because of our development #shorts Wisdom teeth can be such a pain Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1MuG9Gf397U) 2022-09-14T19:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been the evolution of a world absolutely teeming with fruit. And with all that fruit came a lot of fruit eaters. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=71umdejIWRI) 2025-07-15T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 762.4K engagements "A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution The skeleton of a Homo erectus revealed something pretty interesting about ancient paleo diets. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: Walker A. Zimmerman M. R. & Leakey. R. E. F. (1982). A possible case of hypervitaminosis A in Homo erectus. Nature [---] 248-250" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMm_gKW8yzc) 2023-02-09T22:45Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "When did our ancestors start cooking #pbseons #evolution #science When do you think our ancestors started cooking food Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CUcBD7pPoKU) 2023-03-09T14:05Z 3.2M followers, 833K engagements "How Vertebrates Got Teeth. And Lost Them Again As revolutionary as teeth were they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katherine Harriger Karen Farrell Trevor Long Brett Clark Raphael Haase Lyndsey McGill daniel blankstein DY Corty Ric Casper Lubbers Enya Berenice Castro Huguez Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust Avery" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IHMHPjPZIUI) 2022-02-08T22:30Z 3.2M followers, 719.7K engagements "Why Does Caffeine Exist Thank you to Wondrium for Supporting PBS. For more information and a trial please go to http://ow.ly/6nrt30smywM Check out PBS Terra https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra 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 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PzshAqowsyI) 2022-07-28T21:25Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "This penguin weighed over [---] pounds #science #evolution #birds Giant penguin news Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2TxUOCLMtk) 2023-05-11T20:41Z 3.2M followers, 219.2K engagements "How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below About [--] million years ago the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. Its only been in the past few years that weve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature but it turns out that the greatest snake that the world ever saw was made possible by a warming planet. Huge thanks to the Florida Museum of Natural History for allowing us to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T-hDNbM-WLk) 2020-02-27T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements "The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body Thank you to Wondrium for Supporting PBS. For more information and a trial go to http://ow.ly/vcZO30sfmar. Listen to Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 Only a handful of Denisovan fossils have been identified. In the absence of actual body fossils its impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology right Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Denisovan reconstruction featured in this video ***** PBS Member Stations rely on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y20pXB20Mog) 2022-04-27T21:47Z 3.2M followers, 498.9K engagements "When Antarctica Was Green PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about [--] million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. Andit turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that time when Antarctica was green. Check out Crash Course: AI: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a0_lo_GDcFw&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtO65LeD2p4_Sb5XQ51par_b&index=2 Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Notiolofos and Antarctodon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cC4WiBCoVeo) 2019-10-03T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements "Mesozoic Mammals Were Drab ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay John Hildebrandt AllPizzasArePersonal Hugo van den Hoek Alex Hackman Travis Bauer John H. Austin Jr. Stephen Patterson William Sunderland Karen Farrell Melodie Chen-Glasser Casey Hague Mary Sammartino rene fuqua Gizmo Jason Rostoker Nicholas Arger Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Mary" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQD9Rw288_E) 2025-11-13T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 65K engagements "What Was The First Beverage Find out more about our Prehistoric Elephants here: https://complexly.info/mammoths When exactly did we start drinking other things and why To find out we have to look at the worlds oldest beverages which might not be what you expect. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lusWU9zCRj0) 2024-09-03T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 612.4K engagements "How Brawn Led to Brains While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn it turns out that those two things might not be mutually exclusive and in fact theyve been linked for far longer than we might imagine. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mbG8-ejz-WE) 2026-01-13T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 367.8K engagements "When It Was Too Hot for Leaves Take the [----] PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023u Plants first made their way onto land at least [---] million years ago but for their first [--] million years leaves as we know them today didnt exist. What held them back Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the excellent reconstruction of early Devonian megaphyll leaves Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Paul Corty Ric Casper Lubbers Roberto Adrian Ramirez Flores Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y_c1mFMdLH4) 2021-11-17T22:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot Watch Weathered: Earths Extremes for free now https://to.pbs.org/WeatheredEons1 Where are all the east coast dinosaurs Why dont we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park Turns out evolution and geology came together to make the east coast into an ancient lost world of weird dinosaurs. Correction: 02:05 Anchisaurus was [--] feet long not [--] meters ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0NcEmUbxnDk) 2024-10-22T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 862.5K engagements "Scientists watched a single-celled organism become multicellular #pbseons #science #evolution Scientists watched a single-celled organism evolve into a multicellular one in the lab - and they may have solved an evolutionary mystery. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TgKW-dj-wo) 2023-03-03T20:28Z 3.2M followers, 708.6K engagements "The Arms Race That Made Insects Take Flight It's Patron Appreciation Month at Eons and you're invited To celebrate join us for a livestream on March [--]. Become a member at https://www.patreon.com/eons at the Paleozoic level or above by March [--] and receive the very first Eons trading card Plus show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with our new t-shirt: https://complexly.info/Permianshirt 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" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ei9ZJ15Bj4) 2025-03-25T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 668.5K engagements "Solve This Sabertooth Mystery ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nate Chisholm Yibrn Arumir Sara Lance Aaditya Mehta John H. Austin Jr. Stephen A Muth III tara thara AllPizzasArePersonal John Hildebrandt Mary Sammartino Alex Hackman Gizmo Melodie Chen-Glasser Karen Farrell Casey Hague Jason Rostoker Susan Freund William Sunderland Mary Tevington Kerry Conneely" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4GxFYmOqT5E) 2026-02-05T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 102.6K engagements "How the Starfish Got Its Arms Thank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseons The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories - ones that stretch back almost half a billion years. Thanks to Franz Anthony for the incredible Echinoderm illustrations featured throughout this episode: https://franzanth.com/ And thanks to Dr. Sarah Sheffield Dr. Imran Rahman and Dr. Aaron Hunter for advising on the artwork. Produced by Complexly for PBS" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5GdkQJN1XZs) 2021-08-24T21:34Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements "The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldnt Build A Dam PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Animal Wonders and Huckleberry https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ONb2FVNe-7o&list=PL2Ol2gat902eYrXakcgw0FSS86fF0Ix6W&index=1 Its important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers it was semiaquatic -- it lived both on the land and in the water. The difference is that todays beavers do a pretty special thing - one that the giant beaver probably didnt or couldnt do. Thank you to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9OsdtkxZWPk) 2021-01-13T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 589.7K engagements "The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda Discover more about the LEGO Ideas Tree House at https://tinyurl.com/y52k4j8y PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons How does a bear -- which is a member of the order Carnivora -- evolve into an herbivore Despite how it looks nothing about the history of the giant panda is black and white. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (http://alphynix.tumblr.com) and Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/) for the excellent panda illustrations Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G2DbShys9ww) 2019-12-17T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "When Mammals Only Went Out At Night For decades scientists believed dinosaurs were diurnal and tiny mammals were nocturnal. But as researchers have uncovered more mammalian fossils and studied the biology of different dinosaur species theyve found some surprising results. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://alphynix.tumblr.com/) Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com/) for their excellent reconstructions featured in this video. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JqZONKXWPfw) 2021-10-07T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 822.1K engagements "The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The study of natural history is the study of how the world has changed but Earth itself is in a constant state of flux -- because the ground beneath your feet is always moving. So if we want to know how we got here we have to understand how "here" got here. Thanks to Nathan E. Rogers Julio Lacerda Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KfYn9KVya-Q) 2018-02-12T23:51Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements "The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last Check out Subcultured on @pbsvoices: https://youtu.be/oSCj8H4TGTo Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Hyenas werent always able to eat bones. In fact only a few million years ago they lived very different lives. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Roman Uchytel for the excellent reconstructions featured in this video ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LE6P1i7a7q0) 2022-03-29T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 478K engagements "Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and most wonderful. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the stegosaurus illustrations. You can find more of Julio's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Produced for PBS Digital Studios. References:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nsf5xCbZ7us) 2017-07-17T21:37Z 3.2M followers, 755.8K engagements "The [--] Million-Year-Old Ecosystem In Your Mouth The hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutionary history of these microbes over tens of millions of years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T5yHHZMn8ko) 2021-12-09T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 318.8K engagements "The Two People We're All Related To PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Two Cents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8w_A8p8P1HWI3k6PR5Z6w Due to an odd quirk of genetics and some unique evolutionary circumstances two humans who lived at different times in the distant past managed to pass on a very small fraction of their genomes to you. And to me. To all of us. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YNQPQkV3nhw) 2018-10-23T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 4.5M engagements "Heres how potatoes changed human evolution #science #evolution I can't think of another species Id rather co-evolve with. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YX02m7kmLHE) 2023-03-30T20:37Z 3.2M followers, 272.4K engagements "After this bird went extinct the first time evolution just hit replay #shorts The bird that evolved twice Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/may/birds-on-an-island-in-the-indian-ocean-evolved-flightlessness-twice.html https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/186/3/666/5487031login=true#137071492 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-evolution-brought-flightless-bird-back-extinction-180972166/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_w7zF5T109c) 2022-04-04T22:21Z 3.2M followers, 8.1M engagements "Sabertooth cats could bite through skulls of.other sabertooth cats #shorts Could sabertooth cats bite through skulls Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/were-saber-toothed-cat-fangs-strong-enough-puncture-bone-180972335/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631068319300612fbclid=IwAR1M7GIwYz2rYEvnx2q-vtUIeoIniRrWrUnFtqg3crTSDpMqJY_ElkbLsdI#fig0015" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c92QqujvJO0) 2022-11-04T23:18Z 3.2M followers, 443.4K engagements "Our Junk DNA Is More Important Than We Once Thought Check out Brilliant here: https://brilliant.org/Eons In the search for the genes that make us human some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves but in what was once considered genomic junk. Thanks to Riley J. Mangan Ph.D. Candidate Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University for his help with this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dVcneOQirfA) 2023-03-16T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 378.7K engagements "What is the most successful human species #shorts Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fossils-some-last-homo-erectus-hint-end-long-lived-species-180973816/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/homo-erectus-a-bigger-smarter-97879043/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=i2hWidDglOw) 2022-05-31T17:20Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "Could You Survive The Great Dying A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to us as the Great Dying. As a result a large majority of terrestrial life would disappear but our ancestors had the adaptations (and the healthy dose of luck) needed to survive but would you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ovLCVK9zgNU) 2024-11-26T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 400.1K engagements "A Brief History of Geologic Time PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below By looking at the layers beneath our feet geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in lifes history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these chapters together is the Geologic Time Scale. Thanks to Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rWp5ZpJAIAE) 2017-11-06T23:33Z 3.2M followers, 4.7M engagements "The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Because of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits theyre sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though youve never met one of these animals the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the mammal family tree. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (http://alphynix.tumblr.com) and Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) for the excellent beardog illustrations Produced in" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xbmLqrnxH2w) 2019-12-12T22:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements "When We Took Over the World PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Monstrum https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during the short window of time when we took over the world. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the human migration illustration. You can find more of Julio's work here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xmboVmtqNJc) 2019-05-07T23:41Z 3.2M followers, 2.7M engagements "From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out our other journeys through geologic time here : https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLi6K9w_UbfFSFIpEU9VMavTM5MIbOAiW5 After taking you on a journey through geologic time we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that you can think of appeared during this era but perhaps more importantly the Cenozoic marks the rise of organisms that look a lot like us. Thanks to Sean Murtha for the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yR8cR75iKGU) 2018-05-16T16:36Z 3.2M followers, 5.1M engagements "The Age of Giant Insects PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about The Great Courses Plus* here: http://ow.ly/PeiY30egcZN Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods werent always so small. About [---] million years ago during the Carboniferous Period they were not only abundant: they were enormous. Thanks to Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Lucas's work" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-wQLKMUWANg) 2017-09-18T22:21Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements "We Found T-Rex's Lost Ancestor ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah Grunow-Mau Walter Ray-Dulany Ruth Orr Deanna Hernandez Lianne Lairmore John Celio Kevin Lacson Christopher Samuel Douglas B Collin Dutrow Steven Kern Nick Ryhajlo Stephanie Schlea Betsy Radley Jeff" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H2MsPY-Dibc) 2025-12-11T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 86.8K engagements "When The Earth Was Purple PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Besides the blue of the oceans the dominant color of our planet as we know it is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little purple. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: https://www.livescience.com/1398-early-earth-purple-study-suggests.html" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IIA-k_bBcL0) 2017-10-09T21:28Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction Check out Women of the Earth https://www.youtube.com/watchv=7ojh4xYoJRU Whats the real story of the dodo How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place And are we really responsible for its extinction ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Syrupeclipse Melanie Truscott Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr.Kate Huhmann Alex" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Juci-kAqjes) 2023-04-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Today chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world - grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe Africa and Asia. But how and why did chilis evolve this weird fiery trick in the first place And why did we learn to love that spicy burn Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Capsicum domestication illustration Produced in collaboration with" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MGob6ceaL_k) 2021-04-07T22:09Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "When Giant Fungi Ruled PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below [---] million years ago a giant feasted on the dead growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Franz Anthony of 252mya.com and Jon Hughes of jfhdigital.com for their tremendous reconstructions of Prototaxites. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-G64DagHuOg) 2017-12-18T22:44Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements "When Ants Domesticated Fungi While weve been farming for around [-----] to [-----] years the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around [--] million years. So when and how and why did ants start farming Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the excellent ant reconstruction featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Sam & Matt Kyle Brown Stephen" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-XuPtW8lBCM) 2022-05-10T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements "The Sea Monster from the Andes PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In [----] a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton.How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz. Thanks as always to Ceri Thomas for the excellent South American marsupials: https://alphynix.tumblr.com/ This video features this Paleogeographic Map: Scotese C.R. [----]. Plate Tectonics" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1MCZrZiq9BE) 2020-09-10T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 964.3K engagements "When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our new pin https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pin Just a few thousand years ago the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place and how did they help shape the unique environments of Madagascar And how did they get winnowed down leaving only their smaller relatives behind Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the lemur illustrations Check out" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1hTJh8W0khU) 2019-09-25T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 892.9K engagements "What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived and why it disappeared. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Julio Lacerda at 252MYA.com and Carlos Eulefi for both of their wonderful reconstructions of Gigantopithecus. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1qW256pUdYg) 2017-12-11T23:12Z 3.2M followers, 9.2M engagements "How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean Check out American Veteran: Keep It Close on @pbsvoices: https://youtu.be/9lc1sMaQOQQ It looks like the evolution of ocean-going whales like Borealodon may have affected communities found in the deep ocean like the ones found around geothermal vents. And it turns out that when a whale dies thats just the beginning of the story. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://nixillustration.com/) Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) and Lucas Lima (https://252mya.com/gallery/lucas-lima) for their" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1vb00-gcdtA) 2021-10-21T21:44Z 3.2M followers, 875.7K engagements "The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below From end to end its forelimbs alone measured an incredible [---] meters long and were tipped with big comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull no feet almost nothing that could give experts a fuller picture of what this dinosaur actually was. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com/) for the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2y_wA6GTp2Q) 2020-01-28T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements "How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval the more DNA the better. Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the incredible reconstruction of plants in the aftermath of the K-Pg extinction. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Jimmy LuoAaditya MehtaJen SmithMelanie TruscottMichael RoyJohn H." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XmFUWdgKWk) 2023-04-13T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 564.3K engagements "How Sharks Lost Their Buzzsaws Anvils and Spikes Thank you to CyberghostVPN for supporting Public Media. You can take advantage of an 83% discount i.e. $2.03 per month + [--] months free by clicking on this link: https://cyberghostvpn.com/PBSEons Long before the rise of the great whites and hammerheads we know today sharks and their cartilaginous relatives ruled Earths oceans and rivers in astonishing variety. It was the golden age of sharks. But why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during this period only to lose most of that diversity forever Also special thanks to Joschua Knppe" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ihYiTOIBT0) 2025-09-23T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 564K engagements "What Niche Do Humans Occupy (Mailbag Episode) Weve reached the present Before we take one look into the future in our final episode all four Eons hosts have gathered to reflect on their survival experiences - and answer some of your questions. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5JbPtVh5Uhk) 2025-03-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 143.4K engagements "When a Billion Years Disappeared PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In some places the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about [---] billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earths history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent out-of-control glaciers and maybe the diversification of life itself. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6R_NAV8Ieuo) 2020-04-15T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.6M engagements "The Genes We Lost Along the Way PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and weve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is already clear: were not just defined by the genes that weve gained over the course of our evolution but also by the genes that weve lost along the way. Thanks to these illustrators for their wonderful hominin illustrations featured throughout this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist Fabrizio de Rossi:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Vc2bM2aQsw) 2021-02-24T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements "A Natural History of Mars Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmos While Earths natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Jimmy LuoAaditya MehtaJen SmithMelanie TruscottMichael RoyJohn H. Austin Jr.Kate HuhmannAlex" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=70Qi4Nk3aJc) 2023-05-09T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "Will We Survive The Future (with John Green) Just because our ancestors have made it through every major period of upheaval in the Earths history so far doesn't mean that our survival through future changes is guaranteed. Humans have become a force of nature but will we survive ourselves ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=74VvCEtMPcc) 2025-03-18T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 151.7K engagements "How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is itself pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs and how it used them Well thats a little more complicated. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Produced for PBS" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=772GiBXnWoQ) 2018-06-26T23:06Z 3.2M followers, 3.6M engagements "Are We All Actually Archaea Check out another Complexly production: Journey To The Microcosmos https://youtube.com/microcosmos The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like bacteria. But in recent years its been their connection to us that's turned out to be particularly full of surprises - ones that may mean we have a connection to a group known as Asgard. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7LdmcFoYQtU) 2022-10-25T21:56Z 3.2M followers, 877.8K engagements "When Insects First Flew PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Insects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly and arguably they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on and arguing about how and when insect wings first came about. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful insect reconstructions. You can see more of Franz's tremendous work at http://252mya.com Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QMcXEj7IT0) 2018-07-10T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "When The "Combat Wombat" Became An Apex Predator Help us out and take the [----] PBSDS survey https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023u In Australia evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute harmless herbivores and turning them murderous. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr. Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Tyler Adams Amanda Ward" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8EhIaV_i5vg) 2022-12-06T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 693.1K engagements "When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below For decades scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas and trying to figure out if something like it could happen again. And it turns out that what caused this event is the subject of a heated debate. Thanks to these wonderful paleoartists for their excellent illustrations Jack Byrley: https://twitter.com/bedupolker Fabrizio De Rossi: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious Julio Lacerda:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=95u2sk_lRoQ) 2020-12-17T22:41Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs How did sauropods uniquely large land animals actually live with their anatomy and physiology pushed to such extremes Well their unprecedented gigantism came with some equally massive costs ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ATxQnJc_VIs) 2025-06-17T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 870.1K engagements "Where Did Water Come From 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Amanda Ward Avery Sanford Hillary Ryde-Collins Stephanie Tan Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AUAEBjlROWQ) 2022-09-27T20:38Z 3.2M followers, 2.7M engagements "The Trouble With Trilobites PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional or because they happened to preserve so well. They are known the world over because they were everywhere This episode was written by Blake de Pastino. Thanks to Franz Anthony Julio Lacerda Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. References:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aji2VnQFUCs) 2017-06-26T21:04Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements "How The Elephant Got Its Trunk Check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NYA6GF1uAa8& Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long flexible trunks instead: mammoths mastodons and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephants trunk. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B9B7kPJ1i0M) 2024-09-10T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 522K engagements "How the Walrus Got Its Tusks PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The rise and fall of ancient walruses and how modern ones got their tusks is a story that spans almost [--] million years.And while there are parts of the story that were still trying to figure out it looks like tusks didnt have anything to do with how or what these animals ate. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: https://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Fabrizio de Rossi:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BKDGYGV2LK8) 2020-07-07T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 800.8K engagements "Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U For more than [--] million years Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans apex predator.until [---] million years ago when it went extinct. So what happened to the largest shark in history "Correction: 9:36 This is an image of a humpback whale when it should be a blue whale." PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTPcq2HczVY) 2018-12-19T22:07Z 3.2M followers, 28.4M engagements "Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis In the Late Miocene Epoch tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CDB0m0hO8qk) 2025-02-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 229.6K engagements "How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U A 9500-year-old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats startAnd how did humans help cats take over the world PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Big thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Julio Lacerda (who illustrated the Cyprus grave" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYPJzQppANo) 2019-11-06T22:11Z 3.2M followers, 13.4M engagements "The World Before Plate Tectonics PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Watch Prehistoric Road Trip http://pbs.org/prehistoricroadtrip There was a time in Earths history that was so stable geologists once called it the Boring Billion. But the fact is this period was anything but boring. In fact it set the stage for our modern version of plate tectonics - and probably for the rise of life as we know it. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the excellent supercontinent reconstructions: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DI6SemRT2iY) 2020-06-16T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements "Barnacles were Charles Darwins nemesis. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ali WellerCollin DutrowPope John XIISteven KernJimmy LuoAaditya MehtaAllPizzasArePersonalJohn H. Austin Jr. Kate HuhmannAlex HackmanAmanda WardStephen PattersonKaren FarrellTrevor LongRicJason RostokerJonathan RustMary TevingtonBart & Elke van Iersel - De JongWilliam Craig IIIrene WoodDerek" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DZWeuAW-oC0) 2023-08-22T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Blood Evolved (Many Times) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years the way in which blood does its job has changed over and over again. As a result we animals have our familiar red blood. But also blue blood. And purple and green and even white. Thanks to Julio Lacerda Lucas Lima Franz Anthony of Studio 252mya for several illustrations throughout this episode. You can find more of their work" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DdjN4ddnl2E) 2019-01-15T22:02Z 3.2M followers, 4.7M engagements "The Time Terror Birds Invaded PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below About [--] million years ago a new predator made its way from the south and onto the coastal plains of North America. It was a giant flightless carnivorous bird and came to be known by one of the coolest and most richly earned nicknames in all of paleontology: the terror bird. Correction Thanks to Ben Creisler for pointing out that at 4:10 we mixed up the Paleogene Period with the Neogene Period. We regret the error and hope you still find" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0aDc6sBtg) 2018-01-22T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements "When Fish First Breathed Air PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/eons [---] million years ago a group of fish would undertake one of the most important journeys in the history of life and become the first vertebrates to live on dry ground. But first they had to acquire the ability to breathe air. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Ichthyostega reconstruction. Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com And thanks as always to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E1h4kgt2520) 2018-06-19T21:04Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "How Humans Lost Their Fur PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Were the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature and ultimately it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage. Thank you to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Australopithecus and persistence hunting Homo erectus illustrations Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=E76vqlhmBlc) 2020-12-02T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 4M engagements "Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not In [----] 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Heather Wagnon Sam & Matt Kyle Brown Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael Haase daniel" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EJvxOO2WVzg) 2022-06-29T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 763.8K engagements "Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles 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 Check out our podcast Eons: Surviving Deep Time https://open.spotify.com/show/3lWy5OrZzXMRITkMecnziLsi=3a1035dfffcd4410 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EPXbSx17030) 2025-02-25T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 831.7K engagements "When We First Made Tools Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The tools made by our human ancestors may not seem like much when you compare them to the screen youre looking at right now but their creation represents a pivotal moment in the origin of technology and in the evolution of our lineage. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi Julio Lacerda and everyone else at Studio 252mya for their excellent hominin illustrations. You can find more of their work here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FFI50iSPWeI) 2019-03-26T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) 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. Go check out @pbsstoried Fate & Fabled: https://youtu.be/_WC-zpVw-Xo ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FbCoKIW0LGE) 2022-01-19T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe Check out Sharks Unknown on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/@pbsterra What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland While a massive megatsunami might have drowned it for good the underlying reason that it now lies under the sea may have actually been the same thing that made it so great in the first place. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H5XVxKNzhjQ) 2023-08-29T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 898.3K engagements "The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii 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 [----] years ago. But when you look into the details it turns out their residents may have experienced very different final moments. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HDNFIfeM1uU) 2025-01-28T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 238.1K engagements "When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more go to http://ow.ly/DIED30qpmFa PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Today we think of penguins as small-ish waddling tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor were actual giants for millions of years and some of them were even dressed a little more casually. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful penguin illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HMArjGQwLvY) 2020-03-18T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements "When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons Ancient weeds began mimicking early crops again and again over the course of the agricultural revolution as ancient farmers made similar mistakes in different places at different times.And it turns out some of our closest plant friends today actually started out as uninvited guests that hid their true identity. From a certain evolutionary point of view these plants tricked us into domesticating them. But this mimicry came with a dark side along with some accidental plant friends emerged an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HxpkOym11pw) 2026-01-27T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 488.9K engagements "Could You Survive The End-Triassic In the aftermath of the Great Dying rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period. But life at the end of the period including the earliest dinosaurs faced yet another catastrophic extinction event. Could you survive in this strange time period ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ILiHyDh2qBw) 2024-12-10T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 310.4K engagements "How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked 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 Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious) for the incredible Mystacodon reconstructions ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ITEMAKa4-lc) 2022-08-18T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements "We got echidna evolution backwards ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay John Hildebrandt AllPizzasArePersonal Hugo van den Hoek Alex Hackman Travis Bauer John H. Austin Jr. Stephen Patterson William Sunderland Karen Farrell Melodie Chen-Glasser Casey Hague Mary Sammartino rene fuqua Gizmo Jason Rostoker Nicholas Arger Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Mary" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IvM0ZMODYAQ) 2025-10-30T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 93.1K engagements "Theres Something Weird About Neandertal DNA And It Might Be Our Fault The brand new Eons Puzzle https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-puzzle And the [----] Eons Calendar https://www.complexlycalendars.com/products/eons Maybe its a little self-centered that we can be pretty focused on the DNA that we got from Neanderthals but we shouldnt forget that gene flow goes both ways. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent reconstructions featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=J2FatwFjc-8) 2022-11-16T22:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "Could You Survive The Devonian Period (with Hank Green) By the end of the Devonian Period the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates. There was also Tiktaalik - one of the first known vertebrates able and willing to move from the water to land. Our distant relative figured out how to survive in this dramatically different environment can you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JPbS2qnmev0) 2024-10-01T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 499.5K engagements "The Curious Case of the Cave Lion A mysterious large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent and its been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats Thanks to Ceri Thomas and Roman Uchytel their reconstructions featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Sam & Matt Kyle Brown" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jfgvm4iU1cU) 2022-05-17T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Land Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water others were turning around and diving right back in. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the incredible reconstruction of Qikiqtania for this episode https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Amanda Ward Avery" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0BjyO41Qg) 2022-10-04T20:46Z 3.2M followers, 867.8K engagements "Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U 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 Thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their incredible work in this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M6_7Q7uUhmU) 2022-02-23T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements "How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction Help understand what you enjoy and what you would want to see us make more of: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyEons [--] million years ago after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs the world became a dark wasteland. But among the survivors were two distantly-related groups of animals that on the surface seem to have nothing in common: tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles. They did share one important trait though: the ability to chew their food. Really well. And it turns out this strange ability might have helped" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MoPEyQrChdg) 2025-11-18T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 489K engagements "The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Theres one kind of herpesvirus thats specific to one species of primate and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tree when the primate split off from its own tree. But of course humans are a special kind of primate. Here are the two studies we discuss in this episode: Wertheim J. O. Smith M. D. Smith D. M. Scheffler K. & Kosakovsky Pond S. L. (2014). Evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex viruses 1" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NHTniCvTLDY) 2020-05-20T21:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg Check out Overview and our entire Earth Month playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=FYOD7lLJa1k&list=PLnNZYWyBGJ1F8ofFm4H9UTrHxqU8zngK4 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NNF6zoWwtgc) 2025-04-22T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 539.9K engagements "How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea Learn more about [-----] Hours at: https://80000hours.org/eons Tiny exoskeleton fragments may have allowed some of the most important microbes in the planets history to set sail out into the open ocean and change the world forever. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya Mehta" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NOwbjOJjvjE) 2024-01-09T11:15Z 3.2M followers, 317.7K engagements "Could You Survive The Ordovician Period The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called Big Five mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - more than 80% of species in the oceans died out. But could you survive its aftermath ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NbsdDga5gtw) 2024-10-29T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 331.6K engagements "When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent Keep learning new things with Study Hall Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Go to https://link.gostudyhall.com/eons to learn more. While the eruptions of the volcanoes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge usually don't trouble us their birth was once responsible for ripping a supercontinent apart and creating the Atlantic Ocean that we know today. Correction: 2:28 A change of 100C = a change of 180F ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NzOPAoRWOLg) 2024-05-28T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements "How We Identified One of Earths Earliest Animals PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Scientists had no idea what type of organisms the life forms of the Ediacaran werelichen colonies of bacteria fungi or something else.It turns out the key to solving the puzzle of Precambrian life was a tiny bit of fossilized fat. Thanks to Ilya Bobrovskiy for allowing us to use photos from his fieldwork in this video. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1246" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PGBf4Q2XWZo) 2020-05-28T21:21Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "The Only Human Found in the La Brea Tar Pits While we work on new longform YouTube episodes we wanted to make the first episode of our podcast available here on YouTube More episodes are available here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 La Brea Woman is the name given to the only human ever excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits but how did she end up there ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PMKptjhffrM) 2022-09-15T20:17Z 3.2M followers, 860.8K engagements "That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen Find Bizarre Beasts here https://www.youtube.com/bizarrebeasts This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PNGs-CLgBfk) 2023-09-12T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 673.1K engagements "The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our Human Evolution Learning Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLi6K9w_UbfFSxHPEDWcXxIxSA6gDR4OeZ We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact its had on our evolution. Throughout time part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food. Special thanks to Jack Byrley" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QL5VCs7scbU) 2020-04-22T21:35Z 3.2M followers, 2.6M engagements "The Croc That Ran on Hooves PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In the Eocene Epoch there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws its toes were each capped with hooves. How did this living nightmare come to evolve Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Fabrizio De Rossi:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QmdcewIjXi0) 2019-05-01T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements "From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying Learn more about Audible at https://Audible.com/Eons or text Eons to 500-500 PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The first era of our current eon the Paleozoic Era is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earths history. With near-constant revolutions in life punctuated by catastrophic extinctions it is also one of the most chaotic. Correction At 9:19 we erroneously refer to Dimetrodon as an herbivore. It was definitely a carnivore. We even made a whole video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDQa0okkpf0) 2018-02-20T23:04Z 3.2M followers, 3.7M engagements "Where did the dinosaur-killing asteroid come from ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Karen Farrell Mark Talbott-Williams Jonathan Rust Irene Wood Mary Tevington Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta Gizmo Marco Narajos AllPizzasArePersonal Stephen Patterson Walter Ray-Dulany Yu Mei Alex Hackman Jason Rostoker" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RL8GK_D4Bgo) 2025-04-03T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 184.8K engagements "How the Squid Lost Its Shell PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The ancestors of modern squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful cephalopod reconstructions. You can see more of Franz's tremendous work at http://252mya.com And thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4vxoP-IF2M) 2018-04-17T21:22Z 3.2M followers, 4.4M engagements "The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below It arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or not it actually became so big that it probably got close to what scientists think might be the actual upper limit for a land mammal. The illustration of Paraceratherium used in the thumbnail is by Dmitry Bogdanov Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SDk1Ft50bsI) 2020-11-19T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 5.2M engagements "We mightve found vampire graves in Poland #shorts Vampire burials in Poland Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: http://www.slavia.org/fieldschool.phpgo=drawsko_vampires https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/deviant-burials-poland-open-casket-secret-lives-vampires-180966970/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23244" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SLcvjig7jgI) 2022-10-26T23:21Z 3.2M followers, 293.1K engagements "How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon The Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Mary Tevington Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Kip Obenauf Jack Crissy Jules Martineau William Craig II Tracey Hizrihel Alkawa James Dowling-Healey District Fungus Mycology" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Stv-a96foIE) 2021-09-29T21:23Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "That Time the Earth Was Sticky 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 [--] million years. So we have to ask: what exactly made this time period so very very sticky ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGsvr0Acc) 2025-09-09T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 436.3K engagements "How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons [--] million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades weve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJY5vWXZHgI) 2025-11-04T19:00Z 3.2M followers, 560.4K engagements "Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts Check out Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UpH7N0eI6TI) 2022-03-17T20:52Z 3.2M followers, 716.2K engagements "When Trees Took Over the World [---] million years ago the forest floor of what's now New York was covered with a plant that didnt look like a tree at all except its roots were made of wood. Instead of looking up to learn about the evolution of trees it turns out paleobotanists shouldve been looking down all along. A big thank you to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) Julio Lacerda (https:twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) and Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/) for their excellent paleoart featured in this episode. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrwMUQbUR30) 2021-05-12T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 944.4K engagements "When Neandertals Became Apex Predators 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VdAnC73MH_g) 2024-12-17T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 437.9K engagements "We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why Check out the first episode of Human: https://to.pbs.org/HumanNOVA 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VkYITGZccMs) 2025-10-07T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 692.4K engagements "There's No Single Cradle of Humankind Go here to subscribe to The Universe on your favorite podcast app: https://complexly.io/theuniverse It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasnt just one so-called "cradle of humankind" and realize that maybe theyd been asking the wrong question all along. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqcoMOxGWfs) 2024-04-30T13:15Z 3.2M followers, 989.8K engagements "Where Did Viruses Come From PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons There are fossils of viruses of sorts preserved in the DNA of the hosts that theyve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from how they evolved and it can even help us tackle the biggest question of all: Are viruses alive Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X31g5TB-MRo) 2018-06-12T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 6.8M engagements "When Earth "Ate" A Planet Watch our next episode two weeks early right now on PBS.org https://to.pbs.org/EonsOnPBS Or on the PBS App: https://to.pbs.org/PBSAppEons Where did our unique moon come from It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue pointing to the origin of our closest cosmic companion an origin even stranger than you might imagine Find out more about our Prehistoric Elephants here: https://complexly.info/mammoths ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XMjLwmgipsA) 2024-09-25T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 641.6K engagements "How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses The brand new Eons Puzzle https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-puzzle And the [----] Eons Calendar https://www.complexlycalendars.com/products/eons How did seahorses one of the oceans worst swimmers spread around the globe And where did they come from in the first place Thanks to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) for the incredible syngnathid reconstructions used in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XqYel-A29dc) 2022-11-08T22:08Z 3.2M followers, 770.4K engagements "The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis You can see SciShow's Deep Dive Into The Bizarre Future of Telescopes here: https://youtu.be/3xCRLJjSQAAsi=-09G_Q6sPhhLehMA How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place When and where did we first domesticate it And why oh why does it get us high ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin Lacson Marco" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZJqmyLCfA-I) 2024-04-16T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements "When the Sahara Was Green PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=EvRAuy1ZmTc The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And were not talking about just a few years of extra rain. Were talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made themselves at home in the middle of the Sahara. Big thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the reconstructions of the Sahara past and present. Check out more" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQP-7BPvvq0) 2020-03-10T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements "Could You Survive The Cambrian Explosion In the ocean the Cambrian Period was one of startling evolutionary innovations but on land it was barren with no vegetation of any kind. In this strange world before plants made their way onto landcould you survive ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope John" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZiqpnhwJsaw) 2024-10-15T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 442.2K engagements "The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Reptiles emerged from the Paleozoic as humble creatures but in time they grew to become some of the largest forms of life ever to stomp swim and soar across the planet. This Age of Reptiles was a spectacular prehistoric epic and it all took place in a single era: the Mesozoic. This episode (as well as most episodes of Eons) features beautiful paleoart from Studio 252mya. We dare you to try to not spend hours looking at their work:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZoHO3fAj_78) 2018-05-02T20:57Z 3.2M followers, 3.2M engagements "That Time It Rained for Two Million Years Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons At the beginning of the Triassic Period with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea the world is hot flat and very very dry. But then [---] million years ago the climate suddenly changed for the wetter. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Thanks to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_1LdMWlNYS4) 2018-05-22T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 15.5M engagements "The Humans That Lived Before Us PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below As more and more fossil ancestors have been found our genus has become more and more inclusive incorporating more members that look less like us Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer some big questions about what it essentially means to be human. Thanks as always to Nobu Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Julio" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_ANNQKKwWGk) 2019-01-29T23:08Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements "When Whales Walked PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below To learn more about The Great Courses Plus* go to http://ow.ly/x0Hi30egd4K We know whales as graceful giants bound to the sea. But what if we told you there was actually a time when whales could walk. Thanks to Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Lucas' work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/lucas-lima Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_OSRKtT_9vw) 2017-10-23T22:07Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements "Were missing the original Neandertal Y chromosome #pbseons #science #evolution Theres something weird about Neandertal DNA Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb6460casa_token=rLK_VlSIKB4AAAAA%3AgplLo9PMxorfpzId7iMuPgmrEx1_hGZI5umOTGdQ5pJj2Q4f9N1KURZPv6QA2NJ-shbJVhuUJOTj5A" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_iJTzwS3Ktk) 2023-02-27T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements "Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals These relatives of ours lived in Eurasia for more than [------] years. They were expert toolmakers using materials like stone wood and animal bone. They were also skilled hunters and foragers and may even have created cave art. So what caused the decline and disappearance of their population Well in a way.it couldve been us. But maybe not in the way you mightve heard. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Thanks to Julio Lacerda" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a6d3uHSFxkM) 2021-12-02T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 738.8K engagements "How Plants Became Carnivores PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NHMZwaopAaI Deep Looks episode on Sundews https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4 How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need arent there some plants can adapt in unexpected ways to make sure they thrive. Thanks to these folks for making their carnivorous plant footage available to us: Patrick Moldowan and Algonquin Wildlife" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aGJ7tg0ifmo) 2020-10-07T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements "The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Over the past [--] years dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we're here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and feathers. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi Julio Lacerda Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=aOeFRg_1_Yg) 2017-11-27T22:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/Ft9nFhEjGiE At Tanque Loma at least [--] giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their own poop. Thanks to Dr. Emily Lindsey for providing a number of photos from Tanque Loma for this episode And thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the excellent reconstructions of Eremotherium and Tanque Loma: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ Produced by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=au4klKI9rG4) 2021-07-14T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 826.4K engagements "Could You Survive On Hateg Island There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the hunting ground of a terrifying apex predator unlike any other: a giant pterosaur. Could you manage to survive on this island ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=b-i2_RbpRF8) 2025-01-07T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 211.2K engagements "Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species Today we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch other upright-walking tool-wielding large-brained hominins roamed the Earth. In a time when behavior might be the key tool to survival could you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c4E6chPj-IQ) 2025-02-18T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 340.1K engagements "How the Egg Came First PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The story of the egg spans millions of years from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to todays mammals including the platypus and of course birds. Like chickens Were here to tell you: The egg came first. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the Hylonomus and Casineria illustrations https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=c_CCmae8Wrc) 2020-03-25T21:49Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements "Your Place in the Primate Family Tree PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our new sticker is available here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons And check out Tacos of Texas: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLh_qdzak59m68-i4M441Rkr5j8c_mQ-en Purgatorius a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform mightve been one of your earliest ancestors. But how did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel than a monkey -- to you a member of Homo sapiens Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dUKV02uYEu0) 2018-10-16T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth It's Patron Appreciation Month at Eons and you're invited To celebrate join us for a livestream on March [--]. Become a member at https://www.patreon.com/eons at the Paleozoic level or above by March [--] and receive the very first Eons trading card Plus show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with our new t-shirt: https://complexly.info/Permianshirt 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. ***** PBS Member Stations" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=din1J2mZmc4) 2025-03-11T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 669.4K engagements "How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Watch the Deep Time Hall Livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/EonsPBS/videos/424570291712824 Dont forget to check out When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time: https://www.pbs.org/tpt/when-whales-walked/ As a scientific concept evolution was revolutionary when it was first introduced. With the help of all three of our hosts and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Historys new Deep Time Hall well try to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=dyiZaHIRM6w) 2019-06-11T21:54Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements "When We First Talked Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and its worth pausing to appreciate that. Its taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks to these illustrators for their wonderful illustrations featured throughout this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCW0zyDGuXc) 2021-02-11T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements "When Dinosaurs Threw Up A Mystery Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs While dino bones from the Late Triassic Period are few and far between the other clues they left behind can reveal how this epic saga played out to those with the stomach to decipher them. Because it turns out the story of the rise of the dinosaurs is a tale written in puke and poop. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=eNR5vjxUEdk) 2025-07-22T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 250.4K engagements "The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Thank you to Squarespace for supporting PBS. To learn more head to squarespace.com and use code "eons" There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name it might have been the Tully Monster. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Image credits: Banffia - Royal Ontario Museum" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=frnio8eSFyk) 2017-07-11T15:12Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "How Earth's First Unkillable Animals Saved the World PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/eons They have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little filter-feeding water-cleaning creatures that they are sponges may have saved the world. Thanks to Franz Anthony and Julio Lacerda for their wonderful illustrations of sponges and snowball earth and other things. You can find more of their work" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gMdv3JlPizw) 2019-07-30T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements "The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained Learn more about Hack the Moon at https://wehackthemoon.com PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Reactionss Summer of Space video on the Northern Lights https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8S_LPFOa-zs Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gUdtcx-6OBE) 2019-05-30T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time out of place in our world. Thanks as always to Studio 252mya for their wonderful paleoart. You can check out more of their work here: https://252mya.com Produced for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=gWP_tFJmC40) 2019-03-12T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World Check out Crash Course TB here: https://youtu.be/7D-gxaie6UIsi=AchKeJt0O4bIs9PO Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird but critical time in the deep pasta time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=geU1xBaxFGw) 2024-05-14T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 438.1K engagements "How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Elongated tubes flat ribbons and other worm-like body plans were so varied and abundant that a part of the Ediacaran is sometimes known as Wormworld. But in the end the ancient Wormworld was ended by the actions of its very own worms. Thanks to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) for the incredible illustrations of Ediacaran life Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=getaQoYBD28) 2021-03-18T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements "Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession 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 One that would be the final scientific side-quest of his long and storied life. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hEkbSV8aYrs) 2025-05-20T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 492.5K engagements "When We Met Other Human Species PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we werent always alone. [------] years ago Eurasia was home to other hominin species some of which we know our ancestors met and spent some quality time with. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Fabrizio de Rossi from Studio 252mya for their wonderful hominin illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/ Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jdYwMLSNHnU) 2019-07-09T22:47Z 3.2M followers, 8.2M engagements "How Horses Took Over North America (Twice) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The ancestors of modern horses became so successful that they spread all over the world to Europe Asia South America and Africa. But in their native range of North America theyll vanish for [-----] years. Until another strange mammal brings them back. The illustration of Equus Simplicidens--also known as the Hagerman Horse--is by Roger Hall. You can check out more of Roger's work at http://InkArt.net Produced for PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=kZoTvXvV02A) 2018-08-14T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements "How a Sinkhole Revealed a Lost World 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 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Karen Farrell Mark Talbott-Williams Jonathan Rust Irene Wood" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=knh8skpSQLs) 2025-04-08T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 992.3K engagements "When Camels Roamed North America PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Camels are famous for adaptations that have allowed them to flourish where most other large mammals would perish. But their story begins over [--] million years ago in North America and in an environment youd never expect: a rainforest. Special thanks to Julio Lacerda WillemSvdMerwe and Ryan Somma for allowing us to use their images in this episode Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=lJNoAE0UHzY) 2018-11-20T22:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements "The Last Time the Globe Warmed Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Imagine an enormous lush rainforest teeming with life.in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Special thanks to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his work:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ldLBoErAhz4) 2017-12-04T23:50Z 3.2M followers, 9.2M engagements "How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmos In the middle of the Cambrian life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the world colder drain much of the oxygen out of the oceans and eventually it would help cause a massive extinction event. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the excellent illustration" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mAkjETPM1s4) 2020-05-12T21:27Z 3.2M followers, 3.4M engagements "What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons It made the front page of the New York Times. Ancient DNA over [--] million years old retrieved from the frozen dirt of Greenland. It reached back further in time than many scientists used to think was even theoretically possible. And it contained the genetic ghost of an /entire ecosystem/ one that has no counterpart in todays world and one that we had /no idea/ even existed. It told of a time when Greenland was greenand how we might borrow genes from that ancient past to help us" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfVPfMpC_60) 2025-12-02T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 242.8K engagements "Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about CuriosityStream at: http://curiositystream.com/eons The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other more modern species even though theyre not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when life was trapped between two mass extinctions. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Drepanosaurus reconstruction. Check out more of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=moxu_uTemNg) 2018-06-05T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 4.3M engagements "130 Million Years Ago the World Caught Fire It seems that for flowering plants to take over the world first they may have had to help burn the old one awayand then put those fires out. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nate Chisholm Yibrn Arumir Sara Lance Aaditya Mehta John H. Austin Jr. Stephen A Muth III tara thara AllPizzasArePersonal John Hildebrandt Mary" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=mtctulFL1wo) 2026-02-10T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 237.6K engagements "How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Were still figuring out the details but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated Where did this happen And what did the process look like in terms of genetics and anatomy PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Special thanks to Jack Byrley (https://twitter.com/bedupolker) Velizar Simeonovski" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=nDt0HKSdRRw) 2020-03-31T21:38Z 3.2M followers, 6.5M engagements "Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Jimmy Luo Aaditya Mehta AllPizzasArePersonal" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ng1hVUozyuQ) 2023-08-01T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 727.9K engagements "When Did We Stop Being Naked Order the [----] Eons calendar here https://dftba.com/Eons Of course the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing but we havent found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes Well it turns out that some of our best evidence for clothing in the past comes from a pretty unlikely - and kinda gross - place. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=opg6RO9cYnk) 2023-11-09T17:43Z 3.2M followers, 3.7M engagements "What Was the Ancestor of Everything (feat. PBS Space Time and Its Okay To Be Smart) Check out Its Okay To Be Smarts video for more about the origins of life on earth: https://youtu.be/_uAJY1mqtw4 And check out PBS Space Times video on the physics of life: https://youtu.be/GcfLZSL7YGw PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The search for our origins goes back to a single common ancestor -- one that remains shrouded in mystery. Its the ancestor of everything we know and today scientists call it the last universal common" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pk213XSSktQ) 2018-04-11T20:12Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements "These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy They may not look like much but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Melanie Truscott Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr. Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Amanda Ward Stephen Patterson Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=plYuvU2VZkE) 2023-01-10T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements "How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The story of sloths is one of astounding ecological variability with some foraging in the seas others living underground and others still hiding from predators in towering cliffs. So why are their only living relatives in the trees Thanks to Ceri Thomas for allowing us to use few sloth reconstructions Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com And thanks as always to Franz" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pt9tBtQoAHo) 2018-11-28T22:03Z 3.2M followers, 3.6M engagements "The Missing Link That Wasnt PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The myth of the Missing Link--the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human--is persistent. But the reality is that there is no missing link in our lineage because thats not how evolution works. Complexly has a new show Check out Journey to the Microcosmos which takes you on a dive into the tiny unseen world that surrounds us:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=pwW40Dj5Sro) 2019-08-21T21:27Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements "That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth [--] billion years ago when the world was a place youd never recognize too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody. This episode on the Oxygen Catastrophe is supported by Squarespace. If you visit squarespace.com and use offer code "eons" you'll get 10% off your first purchase. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qERdL8uHSgI) 2017-08-07T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements "How Sex Became a Thing PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below We dont know which living thing was the very first to arrive at the totally revolutionary process that is sexual reproduction but we can follow the history of how (and why) sex became a thing. Thanks to Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qsn4z7bNb14) 2018-02-26T23:58Z 3.2M followers, 928.2K engagements "When Giant Amphibians Reigned Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for [---] million years. And calling them diverse would be putting it mildly. Yet in the end two major threats would push them to extinction: the always-changing climate and the amniote egg. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the very cool Temnospondyl reconstructions throughout this episode. Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rGthtRZl8B0) 2018-10-09T20:58Z 3.2M followers, 1.9M engagements "When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons On land the Isthmus of Panama kicked off possibly the greatest natural experiment in the history of life on Earth. In the water this narrow strip of land did something completely different: it divided. And that division would have a much bigger effect on the planet than the land connection ever did. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kp9Mw7w_w) 2025-12-16T16:01Z 3.2M followers, 717.6K engagements "What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals In [----] a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost complete skeleton the size of a platypus a find that complicated the history of mammaliaforms. It painted a picture of their explosive diversification their mysterious disappearance and how our own ancestors might have survived thanks to a leg up from some leafy allies *They weren't /exactly/ mammals. Find the [----] Complexly Calendar here: https://complexly.store/products/2025-complexly-calendar ***** PBS Member Stations rely on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sWGYZDiHoXY) 2024-11-05T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements "Neandertals werent dumb cavemen. In lots of ways they were just like us #shorts Shanidar [--] got by with a little help from his friends Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=t7T9N4X7S-0) 2022-10-10T20:24Z 3.2M followers, 11.2M engagements "The Search for the Earliest Life PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below More than [--] billion years ago the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent years weve started to discover that even in this hellish environment life found a way. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=uCVnRIP3pIk) 2017-11-20T19:50Z 3.2M followers, 942.3K engagements "When the Amazon Flowed Backwards What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the worlds mightiest rivers between then and now ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ul8UhpNzFcM) 2024-12-03T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 838.9K engagements "The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths The Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced whats known as a mutational meltdown. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Tracey Hizrihel Alkawa Michael E. Yeaman James Dowling-Healey District Fungus Mycology Frans Balendong Irene Wood Derek Helling Dennis McCullough" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vCad77_c-LU) 2021-07-29T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements "When India Was An Island Find out more about our Mammoth figures here: https://complexly.info/PrehistoricElephants13 We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea and how ultimately when India smashed back into Asia it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vMehbbPpIL4) 2024-08-06T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements "How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more and try it out go to http://ow.ly/m3ap30rzWfP PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. And yet being a leftie does seem to come with some unexpected advantages. Big thanks to Julio Lacerda" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vb11oOHYNXM) 2021-03-24T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 9.5M engagements "When Crocs Thrived in the Seas PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/BXqGkPhU2VE While dinosaurs were dominating the land the metriorhynchids were thriving in the seas. But taking that plunge wasnt easy because it takes a very special set of traits to fully dedicate yourself to life at sea. Special thanks to these wonderful paleoartists for allowing us to use their incredible work throughout this episode: Ceri Thomas (including the illustrated the metriorhynchid in the thumbnail):" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=vgqs_9BBX10) 2021-04-29T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements "When the Synapsids Struck Back Learn more about CuriosityStream http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Synapsids were the worlds first-ever terrestrial megafauna but the vast majority of these giants were doomed to extinction. However some lived on keeping a low profile among the dinosaurs. And now our world is the way it is because of the time when the synapsids struck back. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the excellent Synapsid illustration (including Bulbasaurus) Check out more of Ceri's" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=w6YX8AWXrCA) 2019-06-19T21:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements "Could You Survive The K-Pg Extinction [--] million years ago an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires an impact winter and the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wiYzLexX8co) 2025-01-21T15:08Z 3.2M followers, 221.4K engagements "Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U For some reason animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs independently over and over again.What is it about the crabs form that makes it so evolutionarily successful that non-crabs are apparently jealous of it PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks to Franz Anthony for all of the ancient crab (and "crab") illustrations featured throughout this episode http://franzanth.com/ And special" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=wvfR3XLXPvw) 2020-10-28T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 11.1M engagements "Did Asteroids Spark Life We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta AllPizzasArePersonal John H. Austin Jr. Alex Hackman Stephen Patterson Gizmo Karen Farrell Jason Rostoker" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y4ouRg_RbVY) 2025-01-14T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 301.7K engagements "When Bats Took Flight PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Bats pretty much appear in the fossil record as recognizable full-on flying bats. And they show up on all of the continents except Antarctica around the same time. So where did bats come from And which of the many weird features that bats have showed up first Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the early bat illustrations Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zWeYCULC0UQ) 2019-09-11T21:22Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements "Why Did These Ancient Gophers Have Horns PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus but theyre more commonly called horned gophers because you guessed it they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today. Samantha Hopkins [----] paper on Ceratogaulus with figures featured in this episode (Thanks Samantha): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2005.3171#d3e609 Thanks to Ceri" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=zwJwAstYV2w) 2020-09-15T21:23Z 3.2M followers, 621.4K engagements "What is a carnivorous plant ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya MehtaAllPizzasArePersonalJohn H. Austin Jr.Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Amanda Ward Stephen Patterson Karen Farrell Trevor Long Ric Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust Mary Tevington Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong William Craig II Irene WoodDerek Helling WilCatRhClPPh33 Mark" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gaIzFM9AqQ) 2023-09-21T16:15Z 3.1M followers, 95.9K engagements "How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoics Coolest Fossils PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below One of the most dynamic transformative and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continents most amazing fossil deposits. Its a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone. Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park for their help with this episode Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ofNufZVcMU) 2018-08-22T21:14Z 3.1M followers, 1.2M engagements "The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Back in the late Miocene epoch there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. Its a lesson in the very strange but very real powers of natural selection. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Franz Anthony:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=34BhCFmE12c) 2019-03-05T23:41Z 3.1M followers, 1.8M engagements "The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Nobu Tamura: https://spinops.blogspot.com/ Julio Lacerda: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda This video features this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5nCPbPPrQxQ) 2020-07-23T21:23Z 3.1M followers, 3.9M engagements "Fossil Feud: Eons vs SciShow Youve heard of Family Feud but how about Fossil Feud Join us for a National Fossil Day livestream to watch the Eons team compete against some of our friends from SciShow Gabriel-Philip Santos from the Alf Museum of Paleontology will be our host. Kallie Moore Blake de Pastino and Michelle Barboza-Ramirezwill be up against SciShow's Sarah Suta Stefan Chin and Savannah Geary. Lets see which team will be crowned the Champions of Deep Time Thank you to our Patrons for submitting the questions we are using and thank you to all of you who answered our survey a few weeks" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5v5m8A1DbNU) 2023-10-16T11:08Z 2.9M followers, 81.1K engagements "When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth. The archaeological record is full of evidence that our ancestors lived alongside and interacted with these giant mammals for millennia. But what happened when they did interact when humans met this megafauna Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEYcbhcLsw) 2019-08-07T21:18Z 3.1M followers, 1.7M engagements "Are there dinosaur fossils in space #shorts Dinosaurs In Space Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaurs-in-space-3945429/ https://twitter.com/BitsHammer/status/1080576295208071168s=20 https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-are-pleased-to-inform-you-there-are-probably-dinosaur-remains-on-the-moon/ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25201572 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2013.1028" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=98sbt8vWpD0) 2022-05-02T20:36Z 3.1M followers, 1.1M engagements "Why weren't T. rex eyes as big as their skulls #shorts Bite over sight Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Agis2Dwj-PE) 2022-11-26T22:15Z 3.1M followers, 2.7M engagements Limited data mode. 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"When Did the First Flower Bloom PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below During the Cretaceous Period dinosaurs were more diverse more fierce and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history there were flowers. Thank you to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS. To learn more go to http://curiositystream.com/eons Thanks to Julio Lacerda Joschua Knppe and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here:"
YouTube Link 2017-07-03T20:50Z 3.2M followers, 887.4K engagements
"When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below All told the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live especially in winter. And yet the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered there. So how were they able to survive in this harsh environment Thanks to Nathan E. Rogers for the really great reconstruction of Nanuqsaurus. Check out Nathan's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/nathan-e-rogers This video features this paleogeographic map: Scotese"
YouTube Link 2020-06-24T21:26Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"How Mountains Make Evolution Weird 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George Morgan Kevin"
YouTube Link 2025-02-11T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 413.4K engagements
"Humans Heal Slow ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: rene fuqua Casey Hague Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Nicholas Arger William Sunderland Josh L Beth K Lea Nisay Eric Younge Beth-Ann Cheney Elyssa John D Elias Ashley Glenn Annemiek Arkema Willie Eric Edwards Wookiee Henderson SKS PHD IAmHere Nquiztor lyric1981 Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus"
YouTube Link 2025-09-18T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 262.8K engagements
"When Birds Had Teeth PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out ReInventors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZRoStdiqWxauQT2RGW1Lg Experts are still arguing over whether Archaeopteryx was a true bird or a paravian dinosaur or some other kind of dino. But regardless of what side youre on how did this fascinating bird-like animal relate to todays birds It turns out its teeth were a clue that this story goes all the way back to what we now call the non-avian dinosaurs. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the"
YouTube Link 2018-08-07T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"What Happened To Primates In North America PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below How To Vote in Every State: https://youtube.com/HowToVoteInEveryState Early primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here So what happened to those early relatives of ours Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Nobu Tamura: https://spinops.blogspot.com/ Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist Fabrizio de Rossi:"
YouTube Link 2020-09-30T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/B6QeZ07Fagg Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that for a long time some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed after all Thanks to the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation Professor Bruno David Monash University and David Morgan-Mar (https://dmm.photo) for providing photographs"
YouTube Link 2020-09-02T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Can We Get DNA From Fossils PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In [----] scientists cracked open a piece of amber took out the body of an ancient weevil and sampled its DNA. Or at least so we thought. It took another few decades of research and a lot of take-backs before scientists could figure out how we could truly unlock the genetic secrets of the past. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie Fichtner Aldo Espinosa"
YouTube Link 2018-10-02T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Ancient human found ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah Grunow-Mau Walter Ray-Dulany Ruth Orr Deanna Hernandez Lianne Lairmore John Celio Kevin Lacson Christopher Samuel Douglas B Collin Dutrow Steven Kern Nick Ryhajlo Stephanie Schlea Betsy Radley Jeff Graham Nathan"
YouTube Link 2026-01-22T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 171.1K engagements
"Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts We have no idea where they were all this time or who stole and returned them and why. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60980288"
YouTube Link 2022-08-03T21:49Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements
"How Animals Got Butts Find the PBS Audience Survey here: https://to.pbs.org/2024SurveyEons While the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development its story might actually end with redefining what it means to have a butthole at all. Corrections: 06:10 Starfish are actually deuterostomes Earthworms are protostomes. 06:18 Earthworms are actually protostomes Starfish are deuterostomes. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios."
YouTube Link 2024-11-19T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 471.3K engagements
"How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles Despite the profound changes weve 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kyle Brown Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael Haase daniel blankstein Roberto"
YouTube Link 2022-07-21T21:35Z 3.2M followers, 819.8K engagements
"Why doesn't Australia have an apex predator #science #australia #evolution #pbseons Meet Thylacoleo Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/"
YouTube Link 2023-03-21T16:28Z 3.2M followers, 3.2M engagements
"Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution Or because of our development #shorts Wisdom teeth can be such a pain Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2022-09-14T19:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs One of the most surprising effects of the cascade of changes that played out in the wake of dinosaur extinction may have been the evolution of a world absolutely teeming with fruit. And with all that fruit came a lot of fruit eaters. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-15T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 762.4K engagements
"A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution The skeleton of a Homo erectus revealed something pretty interesting about ancient paleo diets. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: Walker A. Zimmerman M. R. & Leakey. R. E. F. (1982). A possible case of hypervitaminosis A in Homo erectus. Nature [---] 248-250"
YouTube Link 2023-02-09T22:45Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"When did our ancestors start cooking #pbseons #evolution #science When do you think our ancestors started cooking food Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2023-03-09T14:05Z 3.2M followers, 833K engagements
"How Vertebrates Got Teeth. And Lost Them Again As revolutionary as teeth were they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katherine Harriger Karen Farrell Trevor Long Brett Clark Raphael Haase Lyndsey McGill daniel blankstein DY Corty Ric Casper Lubbers Enya Berenice Castro Huguez Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust Avery"
YouTube Link 2022-02-08T22:30Z 3.2M followers, 719.7K engagements
"Why Does Caffeine Exist Thank you to Wondrium for Supporting PBS. For more information and a trial please go to http://ow.ly/6nrt30smywM Check out PBS Terra https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra 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 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super"
YouTube Link 2022-07-28T21:25Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"This penguin weighed over [---] pounds #science #evolution #birds Giant penguin news Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2023-05-11T20:41Z 3.2M followers, 219.2K engagements
"How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below About [--] million years ago the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. Its only been in the past few years that weve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature but it turns out that the greatest snake that the world ever saw was made possible by a warming planet. Huge thanks to the Florida Museum of Natural History for allowing us to"
YouTube Link 2020-02-27T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements
"The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body Thank you to Wondrium for Supporting PBS. For more information and a trial go to http://ow.ly/vcZO30sfmar. Listen to Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 Only a handful of Denisovan fossils have been identified. In the absence of actual body fossils its impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology right Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Denisovan reconstruction featured in this video ***** PBS Member Stations rely on"
YouTube Link 2022-04-27T21:47Z 3.2M followers, 498.9K engagements
"When Antarctica Was Green PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about [--] million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. Andit turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that time when Antarctica was green. Check out Crash Course: AI: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=a0_lo_GDcFw&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtO65LeD2p4_Sb5XQ51par_b&index=2 Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Notiolofos and Antarctodon"
YouTube Link 2019-10-03T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Mesozoic Mammals Were Drab ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay John Hildebrandt AllPizzasArePersonal Hugo van den Hoek Alex Hackman Travis Bauer John H. Austin Jr. Stephen Patterson William Sunderland Karen Farrell Melodie Chen-Glasser Casey Hague Mary Sammartino rene fuqua Gizmo Jason Rostoker Nicholas Arger Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Mary"
YouTube Link 2025-11-13T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 65K engagements
"What Was The First Beverage Find out more about our Prehistoric Elephants here: https://complexly.info/mammoths When exactly did we start drinking other things and why To find out we have to look at the worlds oldest beverages which might not be what you expect. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope"
YouTube Link 2024-09-03T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 612.4K engagements
"How Brawn Led to Brains While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn it turns out that those two things might not be mutually exclusive and in fact theyve been linked for far longer than we might imagine. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 367.8K engagements
"When It Was Too Hot for Leaves Take the [----] PBS Survey: https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023u Plants first made their way onto land at least [---] million years ago but for their first [--] million years leaves as we know them today didnt exist. What held them back Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the excellent reconstruction of early Devonian megaphyll leaves Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Paul Corty Ric Casper Lubbers Roberto Adrian Ramirez Flores Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust"
YouTube Link 2021-11-17T22:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot Watch Weathered: Earths Extremes for free now https://to.pbs.org/WeatheredEons1 Where are all the east coast dinosaurs Why dont we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park Turns out evolution and geology came together to make the east coast into an ancient lost world of weird dinosaurs. Correction: 02:05 Anchisaurus was [--] feet long not [--] meters ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks"
YouTube Link 2024-10-22T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 862.5K engagements
"Scientists watched a single-celled organism become multicellular #pbseons #science #evolution Scientists watched a single-celled organism evolve into a multicellular one in the lab - and they may have solved an evolutionary mystery. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39558-8"
YouTube Link 2023-03-03T20:28Z 3.2M followers, 708.6K engagements
"The Arms Race That Made Insects Take Flight It's Patron Appreciation Month at Eons and you're invited To celebrate join us for a livestream on March [--]. Become a member at https://www.patreon.com/eons at the Paleozoic level or above by March [--] and receive the very first Eons trading card Plus show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with our new t-shirt: https://complexly.info/Permianshirt 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"
YouTube Link 2025-03-25T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 668.5K engagements
"Solve This Sabertooth Mystery ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nate Chisholm Yibrn Arumir Sara Lance Aaditya Mehta John H. Austin Jr. Stephen A Muth III tara thara AllPizzasArePersonal John Hildebrandt Mary Sammartino Alex Hackman Gizmo Melodie Chen-Glasser Karen Farrell Casey Hague Jason Rostoker Susan Freund William Sunderland Mary Tevington Kerry Conneely"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 102.6K engagements
"How the Starfish Got Its Arms Thank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseons The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories - ones that stretch back almost half a billion years. Thanks to Franz Anthony for the incredible Echinoderm illustrations featured throughout this episode: https://franzanth.com/ And thanks to Dr. Sarah Sheffield Dr. Imran Rahman and Dr. Aaron Hunter for advising on the artwork. Produced by Complexly for PBS"
YouTube Link 2021-08-24T21:34Z 3.2M followers, 1M engagements
"The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldnt Build A Dam PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Animal Wonders and Huckleberry https://www.youtube.com/watchv=ONb2FVNe-7o&list=PL2Ol2gat902eYrXakcgw0FSS86fF0Ix6W&index=1 Its important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers it was semiaquatic -- it lived both on the land and in the water. The difference is that todays beavers do a pretty special thing - one that the giant beaver probably didnt or couldnt do. Thank you to"
YouTube Link 2021-01-13T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 589.7K engagements
"The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda Discover more about the LEGO Ideas Tree House at https://tinyurl.com/y52k4j8y PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons How does a bear -- which is a member of the order Carnivora -- evolve into an herbivore Despite how it looks nothing about the history of the giant panda is black and white. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (http://alphynix.tumblr.com) and Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/) for the excellent panda illustrations Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2019-12-17T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"When Mammals Only Went Out At Night For decades scientists believed dinosaurs were diurnal and tiny mammals were nocturnal. But as researchers have uncovered more mammalian fossils and studied the biology of different dinosaur species theyve found some surprising results. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://alphynix.tumblr.com/) Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com/) for their excellent reconstructions featured in this video. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping"
YouTube Link 2021-10-07T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 822.1K engagements
"The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The study of natural history is the study of how the world has changed but Earth itself is in a constant state of flux -- because the ground beneath your feet is always moving. So if we want to know how we got here we have to understand how "here" got here. Thanks to Nathan E. Rogers Julio Lacerda Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced"
YouTube Link 2018-02-12T23:51Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last Check out Subcultured on @pbsvoices: https://youtu.be/oSCj8H4TGTo Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Hyenas werent always able to eat bones. In fact only a few million years ago they lived very different lives. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Roman Uchytel for the excellent reconstructions featured in this video ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super"
YouTube Link 2022-03-29T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 478K engagements
"Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and most wonderful. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the stegosaurus illustrations. You can find more of Julio's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda Produced for PBS Digital Studios. References:"
YouTube Link 2017-07-17T21:37Z 3.2M followers, 755.8K engagements
"The [--] Million-Year-Old Ecosystem In Your Mouth The hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutionary history of these microbes over tens of millions of years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make"
YouTube Link 2021-12-09T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 318.8K engagements
"The Two People We're All Related To PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Two Cents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8w_A8p8P1HWI3k6PR5Z6w Due to an odd quirk of genetics and some unique evolutionary circumstances two humans who lived at different times in the distant past managed to pass on a very small fraction of their genomes to you. And to me. To all of us. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Katie"
YouTube Link 2018-10-23T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 4.5M engagements
"Heres how potatoes changed human evolution #science #evolution I can't think of another species Id rather co-evolve with. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2023-03-30T20:37Z 3.2M followers, 272.4K engagements
"After this bird went extinct the first time evolution just hit replay #shorts The bird that evolved twice Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/may/birds-on-an-island-in-the-indian-ocean-evolved-flightlessness-twice.html https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/186/3/666/5487031login=true#137071492 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-evolution-brought-flightless-bird-back-extinction-180972166/"
YouTube Link 2022-04-04T22:21Z 3.2M followers, 8.1M engagements
"Sabertooth cats could bite through skulls of.other sabertooth cats #shorts Could sabertooth cats bite through skulls Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/were-saber-toothed-cat-fangs-strong-enough-puncture-bone-180972335/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631068319300612fbclid=IwAR1M7GIwYz2rYEvnx2q-vtUIeoIniRrWrUnFtqg3crTSDpMqJY_ElkbLsdI#fig0015"
YouTube Link 2022-11-04T23:18Z 3.2M followers, 443.4K engagements
"Our Junk DNA Is More Important Than We Once Thought Check out Brilliant here: https://brilliant.org/Eons In the search for the genes that make us human some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves but in what was once considered genomic junk. Thanks to Riley J. Mangan Ph.D. Candidate Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Duke University for his help with this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the"
YouTube Link 2023-03-16T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 378.7K engagements
"What is the most successful human species #shorts Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fossils-some-last-homo-erectus-hint-end-long-lived-species-180973816/ https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/homo-erectus-a-bigger-smarter-97879043/"
YouTube Link 2022-05-31T17:20Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Could You Survive The Great Dying A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to us as the Great Dying. As a result a large majority of terrestrial life would disappear but our ancestors had the adaptations (and the healthy dose of luck) needed to survive but would you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons"
YouTube Link 2024-11-26T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 400.1K engagements
"A Brief History of Geologic Time PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below By looking at the layers beneath our feet geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in lifes history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these chapters together is the Geologic Time Scale. Thanks to Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to"
YouTube Link 2017-11-06T23:33Z 3.2M followers, 4.7M engagements
"The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Because of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits theyre sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though youve never met one of these animals the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the mammal family tree. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (http://alphynix.tumblr.com) and Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) for the excellent beardog illustrations Produced in"
YouTube Link 2019-12-12T22:17Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"When We Took Over the World PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Monstrum https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during the short window of time when we took over the world. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio 252mya for the human migration illustration. You can find more of Julio's work here:"
YouTube Link 2019-05-07T23:41Z 3.2M followers, 2.7M engagements
"From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out our other journeys through geologic time here : https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLi6K9w_UbfFSFIpEU9VMavTM5MIbOAiW5 After taking you on a journey through geologic time we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that you can think of appeared during this era but perhaps more importantly the Cenozoic marks the rise of organisms that look a lot like us. Thanks to Sean Murtha for the"
YouTube Link 2018-05-16T16:36Z 3.2M followers, 5.1M engagements
"The Age of Giant Insects PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about The Great Courses Plus* here: http://ow.ly/PeiY30egcZN Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods werent always so small. About [---] million years ago during the Carboniferous Period they were not only abundant: they were enormous. Thanks to Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Lucas's work"
YouTube Link 2017-09-18T22:21Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"We Found T-Rex's Lost Ancestor ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nquiztor lyric1981 SKS PHD Eric Edwards Jennifer Courtemanche Steve Hill Eric Franklin raus Sarah Grunow-Mau Walter Ray-Dulany Ruth Orr Deanna Hernandez Lianne Lairmore John Celio Kevin Lacson Christopher Samuel Douglas B Collin Dutrow Steven Kern Nick Ryhajlo Stephanie Schlea Betsy Radley Jeff"
YouTube Link 2025-12-11T17:15Z 3.2M followers, 86.8K engagements
"When The Earth Was Purple PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Besides the blue of the oceans the dominant color of our planet as we know it is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little purple. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References: https://www.livescience.com/1398-early-earth-purple-study-suggests.html"
YouTube Link 2017-10-09T21:28Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction Check out Women of the Earth https://www.youtube.com/watchv=7ojh4xYoJRU Whats the real story of the dodo How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place And are we really responsible for its extinction ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Syrupeclipse Melanie Truscott Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr.Kate Huhmann Alex"
YouTube Link 2023-04-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Today chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world - grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe Africa and Asia. But how and why did chilis evolve this weird fiery trick in the first place And why did we learn to love that spicy burn Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Capsicum domestication illustration Produced in collaboration with"
YouTube Link 2021-04-07T22:09Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"When Giant Fungi Ruled PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below [---] million years ago a giant feasted on the dead growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Franz Anthony of 252mya.com and Jon Hughes of jfhdigital.com for their tremendous reconstructions of Prototaxites. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -"
YouTube Link 2017-12-18T22:44Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"When Ants Domesticated Fungi While weve been farming for around [-----] to [-----] years the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around [--] million years. So when and how and why did ants start farming Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the excellent ant reconstruction featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Sam & Matt Kyle Brown Stephen"
YouTube Link 2022-05-10T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"The Sea Monster from the Andes PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In [----] a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton.How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz. Thanks as always to Ceri Thomas for the excellent South American marsupials: https://alphynix.tumblr.com/ This video features this Paleogeographic Map: Scotese C.R. [----]. Plate Tectonics"
YouTube Link 2020-09-10T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 964.3K engagements
"When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our new pin https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pin Just a few thousand years ago the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place and how did they help shape the unique environments of Madagascar And how did they get winnowed down leaving only their smaller relatives behind Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the lemur illustrations Check out"
YouTube Link 2019-09-25T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 892.9K engagements
"What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived and why it disappeared. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Julio Lacerda at 252MYA.com and Carlos Eulefi for both of their wonderful reconstructions of Gigantopithecus. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -"
YouTube Link 2017-12-11T23:12Z 3.2M followers, 9.2M engagements
"How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean Check out American Veteran: Keep It Close on @pbsvoices: https://youtu.be/9lc1sMaQOQQ It looks like the evolution of ocean-going whales like Borealodon may have affected communities found in the deep ocean like the ones found around geothermal vents. And it turns out that when a whale dies thats just the beginning of the story. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://nixillustration.com/) Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) and Lucas Lima (https://252mya.com/gallery/lucas-lima) for their"
YouTube Link 2021-10-21T21:44Z 3.2M followers, 875.7K engagements
"The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below From end to end its forelimbs alone measured an incredible [---] meters long and were tipped with big comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull no feet almost nothing that could give experts a fuller picture of what this dinosaur actually was. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist) and Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com/) for the"
YouTube Link 2020-01-28T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval the more DNA the better. Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the incredible reconstruction of plants in the aftermath of the K-Pg extinction. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Jimmy LuoAaditya MehtaJen SmithMelanie TruscottMichael RoyJohn H."
YouTube Link 2023-04-13T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 564.3K engagements
"How Sharks Lost Their Buzzsaws Anvils and Spikes Thank you to CyberghostVPN for supporting Public Media. You can take advantage of an 83% discount i.e. $2.03 per month + [--] months free by clicking on this link: https://cyberghostvpn.com/PBSEons Long before the rise of the great whites and hammerheads we know today sharks and their cartilaginous relatives ruled Earths oceans and rivers in astonishing variety. It was the golden age of sharks. But why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during this period only to lose most of that diversity forever Also special thanks to Joschua Knppe"
YouTube Link 2025-09-23T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 564K engagements
"What Niche Do Humans Occupy (Mailbag Episode) Weve reached the present Before we take one look into the future in our final episode all four Eons hosts have gathered to reflect on their survival experiences - and answer some of your questions. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow"
YouTube Link 2025-03-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 143.4K engagements
"When a Billion Years Disappeared PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In some places the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about [---] billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earths history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent out-of-control glaciers and maybe the diversification of life itself. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:"
YouTube Link 2020-04-15T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.6M engagements
"The Genes We Lost Along the Way PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and weve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is already clear: were not just defined by the genes that weve gained over the course of our evolution but also by the genes that weve lost along the way. Thanks to these illustrators for their wonderful hominin illustrations featured throughout this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist Fabrizio de Rossi:"
YouTube Link 2021-02-24T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements
"A Natural History of Mars Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmos While Earths natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Jimmy LuoAaditya MehtaJen SmithMelanie TruscottMichael RoyJohn H. Austin Jr.Kate HuhmannAlex"
YouTube Link 2023-05-09T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Will We Survive The Future (with John Green) Just because our ancestors have made it through every major period of upheaval in the Earths history so far doesn't mean that our survival through future changes is guaranteed. Humans have become a force of nature but will we survive ourselves ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke"
YouTube Link 2025-03-18T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 151.7K engagements
"How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Support us on Patreon https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is itself pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs and how it used them Well thats a little more complicated. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Produced for PBS"
YouTube Link 2018-06-26T23:06Z 3.2M followers, 3.6M engagements
"Are We All Actually Archaea Check out another Complexly production: Journey To The Microcosmos https://youtube.com/microcosmos The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like bacteria. But in recent years its been their connection to us that's turned out to be particularly full of surprises - ones that may mean we have a connection to a group known as Asgard. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS"
YouTube Link 2022-10-25T21:56Z 3.2M followers, 877.8K engagements
"When Insects First Flew PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Insects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly and arguably they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on and arguing about how and when insect wings first came about. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful insect reconstructions. You can see more of Franz's tremendous work at http://252mya.com Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution:"
YouTube Link 2018-07-10T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"When The "Combat Wombat" Became An Apex Predator Help us out and take the [----] PBSDS survey https://to.pbs.org/pbssurvey2023u In Australia evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute harmless herbivores and turning them murderous. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr. Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Tyler Adams Amanda Ward"
YouTube Link 2022-12-06T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 693.1K engagements
"When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below For decades scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas and trying to figure out if something like it could happen again. And it turns out that what caused this event is the subject of a heated debate. Thanks to these wonderful paleoartists for their excellent illustrations Jack Byrley: https://twitter.com/bedupolker Fabrizio De Rossi: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious Julio Lacerda:"
YouTube Link 2020-12-17T22:41Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs How did sauropods uniquely large land animals actually live with their anatomy and physiology pushed to such extremes Well their unprecedented gigantism came with some equally massive costs ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons"
YouTube Link 2025-06-17T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 870.1K engagements
"Where Did Water Come From 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Amanda Ward Avery Sanford Hillary Ryde-Collins Stephanie Tan Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor"
YouTube Link 2022-09-27T20:38Z 3.2M followers, 2.7M engagements
"The Trouble With Trilobites PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional or because they happened to preserve so well. They are known the world over because they were everywhere This episode was written by Blake de Pastino. Thanks to Franz Anthony Julio Lacerda Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. References:"
YouTube Link 2017-06-26T21:04Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements
"How The Elephant Got Its Trunk Check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NYA6GF1uAa8& Long-jawed proboscideans were doing pretty well for themselves. That is until they were all rapidly replaced with proboscideans with long flexible trunks instead: mammoths mastodons and our modern elephants.What suddenly made long jaws such a liability Well it looks like we can thank a changing climate for the evolution of the elephants trunk. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production"
YouTube Link 2024-09-10T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 522K engagements
"How the Walrus Got Its Tusks PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The rise and fall of ancient walruses and how modern ones got their tusks is a story that spans almost [--] million years.And while there are parts of the story that were still trying to figure out it looks like tusks didnt have anything to do with how or what these animals ate. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: https://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Fabrizio de Rossi:"
YouTube Link 2020-07-07T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 800.8K engagements
"Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U For more than [--] million years Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans apex predator.until [---] million years ago when it went extinct. So what happened to the largest shark in history "Correction: 9:36 This is an image of a humpback whale when it should be a blue whale." PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart:"
YouTube Link 2018-12-19T22:07Z 3.2M followers, 28.4M engagements
"Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis In the Late Miocene Epoch tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George"
YouTube Link 2025-02-04T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 229.6K engagements
"How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U A 9500-year-old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats startAnd how did humans help cats take over the world PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Big thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Julio Lacerda (who illustrated the Cyprus grave"
YouTube Link 2019-11-06T22:11Z 3.2M followers, 13.4M engagements
"The World Before Plate Tectonics PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Watch Prehistoric Road Trip http://pbs.org/prehistoricroadtrip There was a time in Earths history that was so stable geologists once called it the Boring Billion. But the fact is this period was anything but boring. In fact it set the stage for our modern version of plate tectonics - and probably for the rise of life as we know it. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the excellent supercontinent reconstructions: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/"
YouTube Link 2020-06-16T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 3M engagements
"Barnacles were Charles Darwins nemesis. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ali WellerCollin DutrowPope John XIISteven KernJimmy LuoAaditya MehtaAllPizzasArePersonalJohn H. Austin Jr. Kate HuhmannAlex HackmanAmanda WardStephen PattersonKaren FarrellTrevor LongRicJason RostokerJonathan RustMary TevingtonBart & Elke van Iersel - De JongWilliam Craig IIIrene WoodDerek"
YouTube Link 2023-08-22T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Blood Evolved (Many Times) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years the way in which blood does its job has changed over and over again. As a result we animals have our familiar red blood. But also blue blood. And purple and green and even white. Thanks to Julio Lacerda Lucas Lima Franz Anthony of Studio 252mya for several illustrations throughout this episode. You can find more of their work"
YouTube Link 2019-01-15T22:02Z 3.2M followers, 4.7M engagements
"The Time Terror Birds Invaded PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below About [--] million years ago a new predator made its way from the south and onto the coastal plains of North America. It was a giant flightless carnivorous bird and came to be known by one of the coolest and most richly earned nicknames in all of paleontology: the terror bird. Correction Thanks to Ben Creisler for pointing out that at 4:10 we mixed up the Paleogene Period with the Neogene Period. We regret the error and hope you still find"
YouTube Link 2018-01-22T23:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"When Fish First Breathed Air PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/eons [---] million years ago a group of fish would undertake one of the most important journeys in the history of life and become the first vertebrates to live on dry ground. But first they had to acquire the ability to breathe air. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Ichthyostega reconstruction. Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com And thanks as always to"
YouTube Link 2018-06-19T21:04Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"How Humans Lost Their Fur PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Were the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature and ultimately it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage. Thank you to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Australopithecus and persistence hunting Homo erectus illustrations Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2020-12-02T22:20Z 3.2M followers, 4M engagements
"Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not In [----] 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Heather Wagnon Sam & Matt Kyle Brown Stephen Patterson Mark Foster Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael Haase daniel"
YouTube Link 2022-06-29T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 763.8K engagements
"Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles 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 Check out our podcast Eons: Surviving Deep Time https://open.spotify.com/show/3lWy5OrZzXMRITkMecnziLsi=3a1035dfffcd4410 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for"
YouTube Link 2025-02-25T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 831.7K engagements
"When We First Made Tools Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The tools made by our human ancestors may not seem like much when you compare them to the screen youre looking at right now but their creation represents a pivotal moment in the origin of technology and in the evolution of our lineage. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi Julio Lacerda and everyone else at Studio 252mya for their excellent hominin illustrations. You can find more of their work here:"
YouTube Link 2019-03-26T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) 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. Go check out @pbsstoried Fate & Fabled: https://youtu.be/_WC-zpVw-Xo ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:"
YouTube Link 2022-01-19T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe Check out Sharks Unknown on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/@pbsterra What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland While a massive megatsunami might have drowned it for good the underlying reason that it now lies under the sea may have actually been the same thing that made it so great in the first place. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon"
YouTube Link 2023-08-29T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 898.3K engagements
"The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii 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 [----] years ago. But when you look into the details it turns out their residents may have experienced very different final moments. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your"
YouTube Link 2025-01-28T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 238.1K engagements
"When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more go to http://ow.ly/DIED30qpmFa PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Today we think of penguins as small-ish waddling tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor were actual giants for millions of years and some of them were even dressed a little more casually. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful penguin illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/"
YouTube Link 2020-03-18T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons Ancient weeds began mimicking early crops again and again over the course of the agricultural revolution as ancient farmers made similar mistakes in different places at different times.And it turns out some of our closest plant friends today actually started out as uninvited guests that hid their true identity. From a certain evolutionary point of view these plants tricked us into domesticating them. But this mimicry came with a dark side along with some accidental plant friends emerged an"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 488.9K engagements
"Could You Survive The End-Triassic In the aftermath of the Great Dying rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period. But life at the end of the period including the earliest dinosaurs faced yet another catastrophic extinction event. Could you survive in this strange time period ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons"
YouTube Link 2024-12-10T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 310.4K engagements
"How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked 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 Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious) for the incredible Mystacodon reconstructions ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons"
YouTube Link 2022-08-18T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"We got echidna evolution backwards ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay John Hildebrandt AllPizzasArePersonal Hugo van den Hoek Alex Hackman Travis Bauer John H. Austin Jr. Stephen Patterson William Sunderland Karen Farrell Melodie Chen-Glasser Casey Hague Mary Sammartino rene fuqua Gizmo Jason Rostoker Nicholas Arger Kerry Conneely Susan Freund Mary"
YouTube Link 2025-10-30T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 93.1K engagements
"Theres Something Weird About Neandertal DNA And It Might Be Our Fault The brand new Eons Puzzle https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-puzzle And the [----] Eons Calendar https://www.complexlycalendars.com/products/eons Maybe its a little self-centered that we can be pretty focused on the DNA that we got from Neanderthals but we shouldnt forget that gene flow goes both ways. Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent reconstructions featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to"
YouTube Link 2022-11-16T22:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"Could You Survive The Devonian Period (with Hank Green) By the end of the Devonian Period the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates. There was also Tiktaalik - one of the first known vertebrates able and willing to move from the water to land. Our distant relative figured out how to survive in this dramatically different environment can you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon"
YouTube Link 2024-10-01T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 499.5K engagements
"The Curious Case of the Cave Lion A mysterious large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent and its been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats Thanks to Ceri Thomas and Roman Uchytel their reconstructions featured in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Sam & Matt Kyle Brown"
YouTube Link 2022-05-17T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Land Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water others were turning around and diving right back in. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the incredible reconstruction of Qikiqtania for this episode https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Amanda Ward Avery"
YouTube Link 2022-10-04T20:46Z 3.2M followers, 867.8K engagements
"Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U 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 Thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their incredible work in this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist"
YouTube Link 2022-02-23T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction Help understand what you enjoy and what you would want to see us make more of: https://to.pbs.org/2025SurveyEons [--] million years ago after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs the world became a dark wasteland. But among the survivors were two distantly-related groups of animals that on the surface seem to have nothing in common: tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles. They did share one important trait though: the ability to chew their food. Really well. And it turns out this strange ability might have helped"
YouTube Link 2025-11-18T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 489K engagements
"The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Theres one kind of herpesvirus thats specific to one species of primate and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tree when the primate split off from its own tree. But of course humans are a special kind of primate. Here are the two studies we discuss in this episode: Wertheim J. O. Smith M. D. Smith D. M. Scheffler K. & Kosakovsky Pond S. L. (2014). Evolutionary origins of human herpes simplex viruses 1"
YouTube Link 2020-05-20T21:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg Check out Overview and our entire Earth Month playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=FYOD7lLJa1k&list=PLnNZYWyBGJ1F8ofFm4H9UTrHxqU8zngK4 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production"
YouTube Link 2025-04-22T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 539.9K engagements
"How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea Learn more about [-----] Hours at: https://80000hours.org/eons Tiny exoskeleton fragments may have allowed some of the most important microbes in the planets history to set sail out into the open ocean and change the world forever. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya Mehta"
YouTube Link 2024-01-09T11:15Z 3.2M followers, 317.7K engagements
"Could You Survive The Ordovician Period The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called Big Five mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - more than 80% of species in the oceans died out. But could you survive its aftermath ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya"
YouTube Link 2024-10-29T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 331.6K engagements
"When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent Keep learning new things with Study Hall Take a college course that starts on YouTube and earn credit before you even apply to college. Go to https://link.gostudyhall.com/eons to learn more. While the eruptions of the volcanoes along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge usually don't trouble us their birth was once responsible for ripping a supercontinent apart and creating the Atlantic Ocean that we know today. Correction: 2:28 A change of 100C = a change of 180F ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to"
YouTube Link 2024-05-28T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.4M engagements
"How We Identified One of Earths Earliest Animals PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Scientists had no idea what type of organisms the life forms of the Ediacaran werelichen colonies of bacteria fungi or something else.It turns out the key to solving the puzzle of Precambrian life was a tiny bit of fossilized fat. Thanks to Ilya Bobrovskiy for allowing us to use photos from his fieldwork in this video. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6408/1246"
YouTube Link 2020-05-28T21:21Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"The Only Human Found in the La Brea Tar Pits While we work on new longform YouTube episodes we wanted to make the first episode of our podcast available here on YouTube More episodes are available here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 La Brea Woman is the name given to the only human ever excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits but how did she end up there ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the"
YouTube Link 2022-09-15T20:17Z 3.2M followers, 860.8K engagements
"That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen Find Bizarre Beasts here https://www.youtube.com/bizarrebeasts This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 673.1K engagements
"The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our Human Evolution Learning Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLi6K9w_UbfFSxHPEDWcXxIxSA6gDR4OeZ We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact its had on our evolution. Throughout time part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food. Special thanks to Jack Byrley"
YouTube Link 2020-04-22T21:35Z 3.2M followers, 2.6M engagements
"The Croc That Ran on Hooves PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below In the Eocene Epoch there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws its toes were each capped with hooves. How did this living nightmare come to evolve Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Fabrizio De Rossi:"
YouTube Link 2019-05-01T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements
"From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying Learn more about Audible at https://Audible.com/Eons or text Eons to 500-500 PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The first era of our current eon the Paleozoic Era is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earths history. With near-constant revolutions in life punctuated by catastrophic extinctions it is also one of the most chaotic. Correction At 9:19 we erroneously refer to Dimetrodon as an herbivore. It was definitely a carnivore. We even made a whole video"
YouTube Link 2018-02-20T23:04Z 3.2M followers, 3.7M engagements
"Where did the dinosaur-killing asteroid come from ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Karen Farrell Mark Talbott-Williams Jonathan Rust Irene Wood Mary Tevington Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta Gizmo Marco Narajos AllPizzasArePersonal Stephen Patterson Walter Ray-Dulany Yu Mei Alex Hackman Jason Rostoker"
YouTube Link 2025-04-03T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 184.8K engagements
"How the Squid Lost Its Shell PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The ancestors of modern squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful cephalopod reconstructions. You can see more of Franz's tremendous work at http://252mya.com And thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart:"
YouTube Link 2018-04-17T21:22Z 3.2M followers, 4.4M engagements
"The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below It arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or not it actually became so big that it probably got close to what scientists think might be the actual upper limit for a land mammal. The illustration of Paraceratherium used in the thumbnail is by Dmitry Bogdanov Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:"
YouTube Link 2020-11-19T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 5.2M engagements
"We mightve found vampire graves in Poland #shorts Vampire burials in Poland Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: http://www.slavia.org/fieldschool.phpgo=drawsko_vampires https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/deviant-burials-poland-open-casket-secret-lives-vampires-180966970/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.23244"
YouTube Link 2022-10-26T23:21Z 3.2M followers, 293.1K engagements
"How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon The Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Mary Tevington Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Kip Obenauf Jack Crissy Jules Martineau William Craig II Tracey Hizrihel Alkawa James Dowling-Healey District Fungus Mycology"
YouTube Link 2021-09-29T21:23Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"That Time the Earth Was Sticky 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 [--] million years. So we have to ask: what exactly made this time period so very very sticky ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 436.3K engagements
"How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons [--] million years ago a giant space rock crashed into our planet and killed the dinosaurs. In the span of just four decades weve gone from not knowing there was a space rock at all to knowing exactly where that planet-killer came from. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons"
YouTube Link 2025-11-04T19:00Z 3.2M followers, 560.4K engagements
"Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts Check out Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eons-mysteries-of-deep-time/id1610360633 Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2022-03-17T20:52Z 3.2M followers, 716.2K engagements
"When Trees Took Over the World [---] million years ago the forest floor of what's now New York was covered with a plant that didnt look like a tree at all except its roots were made of wood. Instead of looking up to learn about the evolution of trees it turns out paleobotanists shouldve been looking down all along. A big thank you to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) Julio Lacerda (https:twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) and Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/) for their excellent paleoart featured in this episode. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:"
YouTube Link 2021-05-12T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 944.4K engagements
"When Neandertals Became Apex Predators 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta"
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 437.9K engagements
"We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why Check out the first episode of Human: https://to.pbs.org/HumanNOVA 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. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to"
YouTube Link 2025-10-07T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 692.4K engagements
"There's No Single Cradle of Humankind Go here to subscribe to The Universe on your favorite podcast app: https://complexly.io/theuniverse It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasnt just one so-called "cradle of humankind" and realize that maybe theyd been asking the wrong question all along. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin"
YouTube Link 2024-04-30T13:15Z 3.2M followers, 989.8K engagements
"Where Did Viruses Come From PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons There are fossils of viruses of sorts preserved in the DNA of the hosts that theyve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from how they evolved and it can even help us tackle the biggest question of all: Are viruses alive Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -"
YouTube Link 2018-06-12T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 6.8M engagements
"When Earth "Ate" A Planet Watch our next episode two weeks early right now on PBS.org https://to.pbs.org/EonsOnPBS Or on the PBS App: https://to.pbs.org/PBSAppEons Where did our unique moon come from It turns out that lunar rocks brought back by Apollo astronauts are a clue pointing to the origin of our closest cosmic companion an origin even stranger than you might imagine Find out more about our Prehistoric Elephants here: https://complexly.info/mammoths ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a"
YouTube Link 2024-09-25T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 641.6K engagements
"How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses The brand new Eons Puzzle https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-puzzle And the [----] Eons Calendar https://www.complexlycalendars.com/products/eons How did seahorses one of the oceans worst swimmers spread around the globe And where did they come from in the first place Thanks to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) for the incredible syngnathid reconstructions used in this episode ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2022-11-08T22:08Z 3.2M followers, 770.4K engagements
"The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis You can see SciShow's Deep Dive Into The Bizarre Future of Telescopes here: https://youtu.be/3xCRLJjSQAAsi=-09G_Q6sPhhLehMA How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place When and where did we first domesticate it And why oh why does it get us high ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin Lacson Marco"
YouTube Link 2024-04-16T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"When the Sahara Was Green PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=EvRAuy1ZmTc The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And were not talking about just a few years of extra rain. Were talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made themselves at home in the middle of the Sahara. Big thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the reconstructions of the Sahara past and present. Check out more"
YouTube Link 2020-03-10T21:24Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Could You Survive The Cambrian Explosion In the ocean the Cambrian Period was one of startling evolutionary innovations but on land it was barren with no vegetation of any kind. In this strange world before plants made their way onto landcould you survive ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin Dutrow Pope John"
YouTube Link 2024-10-15T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 442.2K engagements
"The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Reptiles emerged from the Paleozoic as humble creatures but in time they grew to become some of the largest forms of life ever to stomp swim and soar across the planet. This Age of Reptiles was a spectacular prehistoric epic and it all took place in a single era: the Mesozoic. This episode (as well as most episodes of Eons) features beautiful paleoart from Studio 252mya. We dare you to try to not spend hours looking at their work:"
YouTube Link 2018-05-02T20:57Z 3.2M followers, 3.2M engagements
"That Time It Rained for Two Million Years Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons At the beginning of the Triassic Period with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea the world is hot flat and very very dry. But then [---] million years ago the climate suddenly changed for the wetter. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Thanks to"
YouTube Link 2018-05-22T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 15.5M engagements
"The Humans That Lived Before Us PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below As more and more fossil ancestors have been found our genus has become more and more inclusive incorporating more members that look less like us Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer some big questions about what it essentially means to be human. Thanks as always to Nobu Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Thanks to Julio"
YouTube Link 2019-01-29T23:08Z 3.2M followers, 4.1M engagements
"When Whales Walked PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below To learn more about The Great Courses Plus* go to http://ow.ly/x0Hi30egd4K We know whales as graceful giants bound to the sea. But what if we told you there was actually a time when whales could walk. Thanks to Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Lucas' work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/lucas-lima Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook -"
YouTube Link 2017-10-23T22:07Z 3.2M followers, 3.1M engagements
"Were missing the original Neandertal Y chromosome #pbseons #science #evolution Theres something weird about Neandertal DNA Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abb6460casa_token=rLK_VlSIKB4AAAAA%3AgplLo9PMxorfpzId7iMuPgmrEx1_hGZI5umOTGdQ5pJj2Q4f9N1KURZPv6QA2NJ-shbJVhuUJOTj5A"
YouTube Link 2023-02-27T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 3.5M engagements
"Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals These relatives of ours lived in Eurasia for more than [------] years. They were expert toolmakers using materials like stone wood and animal bone. They were also skilled hunters and foragers and may even have created cave art. So what caused the decline and disappearance of their population Well in a way.it couldve been us. But maybe not in the way you mightve heard. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Thanks to Julio Lacerda"
YouTube Link 2021-12-02T22:15Z 3.2M followers, 738.8K engagements
"How Plants Became Carnivores PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=NHMZwaopAaI Deep Looks episode on Sundews https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4 How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need arent there some plants can adapt in unexpected ways to make sure they thrive. Thanks to these folks for making their carnivorous plant footage available to us: Patrick Moldowan and Algonquin Wildlife"
YouTube Link 2020-10-07T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.5M engagements
"The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Over the past [--] years dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we're here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and feathers. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi Julio Lacerda Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here:"
YouTube Link 2017-11-27T22:53Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/Ft9nFhEjGiE At Tanque Loma at least [--] giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their own poop. Thanks to Dr. Emily Lindsey for providing a number of photos from Tanque Loma for this episode And thanks to Fabrizio De Rossi for the excellent reconstructions of Eremotherium and Tanque Loma: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ Produced by"
YouTube Link 2021-07-14T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 826.4K engagements
"Could You Survive On Hateg Island There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the hunting ground of a terrifying apex predator unlike any other: a giant pterosaur. Could you manage to survive on this island ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco"
YouTube Link 2025-01-07T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 211.2K engagements
"Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species Today we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch other upright-walking tool-wielding large-brained hominins roamed the Earth. In a time when behavior might be the key tool to survival could you ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Ruth Orr Randall George"
YouTube Link 2025-02-18T15:00Z 3.2M followers, 340.1K engagements
"How the Egg Came First PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The story of the egg spans millions of years from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to todays mammals including the platypus and of course birds. Like chickens Were here to tell you: The egg came first. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the Hylonomus and Casineria illustrations https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks"
YouTube Link 2020-03-25T21:49Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"Your Place in the Primate Family Tree PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Our new sticker is available here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons And check out Tacos of Texas: https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLh_qdzak59m68-i4M441Rkr5j8c_mQ-en Purgatorius a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform mightve been one of your earliest ancestors. But how did we get from a mouse-sized creature that looked more like a squirrel than a monkey -- to you a member of Homo sapiens Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the"
YouTube Link 2018-10-16T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth It's Patron Appreciation Month at Eons and you're invited To celebrate join us for a livestream on March [--]. Become a member at https://www.patreon.com/eons at the Paleozoic level or above by March [--] and receive the very first Eons trading card Plus show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with our new t-shirt: https://complexly.info/Permianshirt 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. ***** PBS Member Stations"
YouTube Link 2025-03-11T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 669.4K engagements
"How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Watch the Deep Time Hall Livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/EonsPBS/videos/424570291712824 Dont forget to check out When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time: https://www.pbs.org/tpt/when-whales-walked/ As a scientific concept evolution was revolutionary when it was first introduced. With the help of all three of our hosts and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Historys new Deep Time Hall well try to"
YouTube Link 2019-06-11T21:54Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"When We First Talked Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and its worth pausing to appreciate that. Its taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks to these illustrators for their wonderful illustrations featured throughout this episode Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist"
YouTube Link 2021-02-11T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 3.9M engagements
"When Dinosaurs Threw Up A Mystery Follow us over to the PBS App or PBS.org to watch Walking with Dinosaurs https://to.pbs.org/WalkingWithDinosaurs While dino bones from the Late Triassic Period are few and far between the other clues they left behind can reveal how this epic saga played out to those with the stomach to decipher them. Because it turns out the story of the rise of the dinosaurs is a tale written in puke and poop. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS"
YouTube Link 2025-07-22T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 250.4K engagements
"The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Thank you to Squarespace for supporting PBS. To learn more head to squarespace.com and use code "eons" There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name it might have been the Tully Monster. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Image credits: Banffia - Royal Ontario Museum"
YouTube Link 2017-07-11T15:12Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"How Earth's First Unkillable Animals Saved the World PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/eons They have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little filter-feeding water-cleaning creatures that they are sponges may have saved the world. Thanks to Franz Anthony and Julio Lacerda for their wonderful illustrations of sponges and snowball earth and other things. You can find more of their work"
YouTube Link 2019-07-30T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained Learn more about Hack the Moon at https://wehackthemoon.com PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Reactionss Summer of Space video on the Northern Lights https://www.youtube.com/watchv=8S_LPFOa-zs Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Studio"
YouTube Link 2019-05-30T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time out of place in our world. Thanks as always to Studio 252mya for their wonderful paleoart. You can check out more of their work here: https://252mya.com Produced for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the"
YouTube Link 2019-03-12T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World Check out Crash Course TB here: https://youtu.be/7D-gxaie6UIsi=AchKeJt0O4bIs9PO Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird but critical time in the deep pasta time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Collin"
YouTube Link 2024-05-14T15:10Z 3.2M followers, 438.1K engagements
"How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Elongated tubes flat ribbons and other worm-like body plans were so varied and abundant that a part of the Ediacaran is sometimes known as Wormworld. But in the end the ancient Wormworld was ended by the actions of its very own worms. Thanks to Franz Anthony (http://franzanth.com) for the incredible illustrations of Ediacaran life Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special"
YouTube Link 2021-03-18T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.3M engagements
"Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession 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 One that would be the final scientific side-quest of his long and storied life. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:"
YouTube Link 2025-05-20T14:01Z 3.2M followers, 492.5K engagements
"When We Met Other Human Species PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we werent always alone. [------] years ago Eurasia was home to other hominin species some of which we know our ancestors met and spent some quality time with. Thanks to Julio Lacerda and Fabrizio de Rossi from Studio 252mya for their wonderful hominin illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/ Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2019-07-09T22:47Z 3.2M followers, 8.2M engagements
"How Horses Took Over North America (Twice) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The ancestors of modern horses became so successful that they spread all over the world to Europe Asia South America and Africa. But in their native range of North America theyll vanish for [-----] years. Until another strange mammal brings them back. The illustration of Equus Simplicidens--also known as the Hagerman Horse--is by Roger Hall. You can check out more of Roger's work at http://InkArt.net Produced for PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2018-08-14T21:02Z 3.2M followers, 2.3M engagements
"How a Sinkhole Revealed a Lost World 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 ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Duane Westhoff Morgan Ruth Orr Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong Karen Farrell Mark Talbott-Williams Jonathan Rust Irene Wood"
YouTube Link 2025-04-08T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 992.3K engagements
"When Camels Roamed North America PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Camels are famous for adaptations that have allowed them to flourish where most other large mammals would perish. But their story begins over [--] million years ago in North America and in an environment youd never expect: a rainforest. Special thanks to Julio Lacerda WillemSvdMerwe and Ryan Somma for allowing us to use their images in this episode Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons"
YouTube Link 2018-11-20T22:00Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"The Last Time the Globe Warmed Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Imagine an enormous lush rainforest teeming with life.in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Special thanks to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his work:"
YouTube Link 2017-12-04T23:50Z 3.2M followers, 9.2M engagements
"How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmos In the middle of the Cambrian life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the world colder drain much of the oxygen out of the oceans and eventually it would help cause a massive extinction event. Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi for the excellent illustration"
YouTube Link 2020-05-12T21:27Z 3.2M followers, 3.4M engagements
"What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons It made the front page of the New York Times. Ancient DNA over [--] million years old retrieved from the frozen dirt of Greenland. It reached back further in time than many scientists used to think was even theoretically possible. And it contained the genetic ghost of an /entire ecosystem/ one that has no counterpart in todays world and one that we had /no idea/ even existed. It told of a time when Greenland was greenand how we might borrow genes from that ancient past to help us"
YouTube Link 2025-12-02T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 242.8K engagements
"Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Learn more about CuriosityStream at: http://curiositystream.com/eons The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other more modern species even though theyre not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when life was trapped between two mass extinctions. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the Drepanosaurus reconstruction. Check out more of"
YouTube Link 2018-06-05T21:05Z 3.2M followers, 4.3M engagements
"130 Million Years Ago the World Caught Fire It seems that for flowering plants to take over the world first they may have had to help burn the old one awayand then put those fires out. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Nate Chisholm Yibrn Arumir Sara Lance Aaditya Mehta John H. Austin Jr. Stephen A Muth III tara thara AllPizzasArePersonal John Hildebrandt Mary"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 237.6K engagements
"How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Were still figuring out the details but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated Where did this happen And what did the process look like in terms of genetics and anatomy PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Special thanks to Jack Byrley (https://twitter.com/bedupolker) Velizar Simeonovski"
YouTube Link 2020-03-31T21:38Z 3.2M followers, 6.5M engagements
"Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Jimmy Luo Aaditya Mehta AllPizzasArePersonal"
YouTube Link 2023-08-01T16:15Z 3.2M followers, 727.9K engagements
"When Did We Stop Being Naked Order the [----] Eons calendar here https://dftba.com/Eons Of course the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing but we havent found any clothes older than the Tarkhan Dress. So how can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes Well it turns out that some of our best evidence for clothing in the past comes from a pretty unlikely - and kinda gross - place. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super"
YouTube Link 2023-11-09T17:43Z 3.2M followers, 3.7M engagements
"What Was the Ancestor of Everything (feat. PBS Space Time and Its Okay To Be Smart) Check out Its Okay To Be Smarts video for more about the origins of life on earth: https://youtu.be/_uAJY1mqtw4 And check out PBS Space Times video on the physics of life: https://youtu.be/GcfLZSL7YGw PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons The search for our origins goes back to a single common ancestor -- one that remains shrouded in mystery. Its the ancestor of everything we know and today scientists call it the last universal common"
YouTube Link 2018-04-11T20:12Z 3.2M followers, 2.2M engagements
"These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy They may not look like much but beneath that shell lies an evolutionary mystery - one that stumped the biggest names in natural history for over a hundred years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Melanie Truscott Michael Roy John H. Austin Jr. Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Amanda Ward Stephen Patterson Karen Farrell Trevor Long Raphael"
YouTube Link 2023-01-10T22:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.1M engagements
"How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The story of sloths is one of astounding ecological variability with some foraging in the seas others living underground and others still hiding from predators in towering cliffs. So why are their only living relatives in the trees Thanks to Ceri Thomas for allowing us to use few sloth reconstructions Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com and http://nixillustration.com And thanks as always to Franz"
YouTube Link 2018-11-28T22:03Z 3.2M followers, 3.6M engagements
"The Missing Link That Wasnt PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below The myth of the Missing Link--the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human--is persistent. But the reality is that there is no missing link in our lineage because thats not how evolution works. Complexly has a new show Check out Journey to the Microcosmos which takes you on a dive into the tiny unseen world that surrounds us:"
YouTube Link 2019-08-21T21:27Z 3.2M followers, 1.5M engagements
"That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth [--] billion years ago when the world was a place youd never recognize too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody. This episode on the Oxygen Catastrophe is supported by Squarespace. If you visit squarespace.com and use offer code "eons" you'll get 10% off your first purchase. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to"
YouTube Link 2017-08-07T21:00Z 3.2M followers, 2M engagements
"How Sex Became a Thing PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below We dont know which living thing was the very first to arrive at the totally revolutionary process that is sexual reproduction but we can follow the history of how (and why) sex became a thing. Thanks to Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of their work here: https://252mya.com/licensing Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter -"
YouTube Link 2018-02-26T23:58Z 3.2M followers, 928.2K engagements
"When Giant Amphibians Reigned Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for [---] million years. And calling them diverse would be putting it mildly. Yet in the end two major threats would push them to extinction: the always-changing climate and the amniote egg. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the very cool Temnospondyl reconstructions throughout this episode. Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at"
YouTube Link 2018-10-09T20:58Z 3.2M followers, 1.9M engagements
"When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age To try everything Brilliant has to offer visit https://brilliant.org/eons On land the Isthmus of Panama kicked off possibly the greatest natural experiment in the history of life on Earth. In the water this narrow strip of land did something completely different: it divided. And that division would have a much bigger effect on the planet than the land connection ever did. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital"
YouTube Link 2025-12-16T16:01Z 3.2M followers, 717.6K engagements
"What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals In [----] a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost complete skeleton the size of a platypus a find that complicated the history of mammaliaforms. It painted a picture of their explosive diversification their mysterious disappearance and how our own ancestors might have survived thanks to a leg up from some leafy allies *They weren't /exactly/ mammals. Find the [----] Complexly Calendar here: https://complexly.store/products/2025-complexly-calendar ***** PBS Member Stations rely on"
YouTube Link 2024-11-05T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.2M engagements
"Neandertals werent dumb cavemen. In lots of ways they were just like us #shorts Shanidar [--] got by with a little help from his friends Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios"
YouTube Link 2022-10-10T20:24Z 3.2M followers, 11.2M engagements
"The Search for the Earliest Life PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below More than [--] billion years ago the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent years weve started to discover that even in this hellish environment life found a way. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ References:"
YouTube Link 2017-11-20T19:50Z 3.2M followers, 942.3K engagements
"When the Amazon Flowed Backwards What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the worlds mightiest rivers between then and now ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos"
YouTube Link 2024-12-03T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 838.9K engagements
"The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths The Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced whats known as a mutational meltdown. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Tracey Hizrihel Alkawa Michael E. Yeaman James Dowling-Healey District Fungus Mycology Frans Balendong Irene Wood Derek Helling Dennis McCullough"
YouTube Link 2021-07-29T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 2.4M engagements
"When India Was An Island Find out more about our Mammoth figures here: https://complexly.info/PrehistoricElephants13 We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea and how ultimately when India smashed back into Asia it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible:"
YouTube Link 2024-08-06T14:00Z 3.2M followers, 2.9M engagements
"How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more and try it out go to http://ow.ly/m3ap30rzWfP PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. And yet being a leftie does seem to come with some unexpected advantages. Big thanks to Julio Lacerda"
YouTube Link 2021-03-24T21:19Z 3.2M followers, 9.5M engagements
"When Crocs Thrived in the Seas PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/BXqGkPhU2VE While dinosaurs were dominating the land the metriorhynchids were thriving in the seas. But taking that plunge wasnt easy because it takes a very special set of traits to fully dedicate yourself to life at sea. Special thanks to these wonderful paleoartists for allowing us to use their incredible work throughout this episode: Ceri Thomas (including the illustrated the metriorhynchid in the thumbnail):"
YouTube Link 2021-04-29T21:18Z 3.2M followers, 1.7M engagements
"When the Synapsids Struck Back Learn more about CuriosityStream http://curiositystream.com/eons PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Synapsids were the worlds first-ever terrestrial megafauna but the vast majority of these giants were doomed to extinction. However some lived on keeping a low profile among the dinosaurs. And now our world is the way it is because of the time when the synapsids struck back. Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the excellent Synapsid illustration (including Bulbasaurus) Check out more of Ceri's"
YouTube Link 2019-06-19T21:01Z 3.2M followers, 1.6M engagements
"Could You Survive The K-Pg Extinction [--] million years ago an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires an impact winter and the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII"
YouTube Link 2025-01-21T15:08Z 3.2M followers, 221.4K engagements
"Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U For some reason animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs independently over and over again.What is it about the crabs form that makes it so evolutionarily successful that non-crabs are apparently jealous of it PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Thanks to Franz Anthony for all of the ancient crab (and "crab") illustrations featured throughout this episode http://franzanth.com/ And special"
YouTube Link 2020-10-28T21:20Z 3.2M followers, 11.1M engagements
"Did Asteroids Spark Life We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Spilmann Reed Randall George Morgan Kevin Lacson Marco Narajos Ian Leavitt Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Aaditya Mehta AllPizzasArePersonal John H. Austin Jr. Alex Hackman Stephen Patterson Gizmo Karen Farrell Jason Rostoker"
YouTube Link 2025-01-14T15:01Z 3.2M followers, 301.7K engagements
"When Bats Took Flight PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Bats pretty much appear in the fossil record as recognizable full-on flying bats. And they show up on all of the continents except Antarctica around the same time. So where did bats come from And which of the many weird features that bats have showed up first Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the early bat illustrations Check out more of Ceri's paleoart at http://alphynix.tumblr.com Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:"
YouTube Link 2019-09-11T21:22Z 3.2M followers, 1.8M engagements
"Why Did These Ancient Gophers Have Horns PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus but theyre more commonly called horned gophers because you guessed it they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today. Samantha Hopkins [----] paper on Ceratogaulus with figures featured in this episode (Thanks Samantha): https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2005.3171#d3e609 Thanks to Ceri"
YouTube Link 2020-09-15T21:23Z 3.2M followers, 621.4K engagements
"What is a carnivorous plant ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Collin Dutrow Pope John XII Steven Kern Aaditya MehtaAllPizzasArePersonalJohn H. Austin Jr.Kate Huhmann Alex Hackman Amanda Ward Stephen Patterson Karen Farrell Trevor Long Ric Jason Rostoker Jonathan Rust Mary Tevington Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong William Craig II Irene WoodDerek Helling WilCatRhClPPh33 Mark"
YouTube Link 2023-09-21T16:15Z 3.1M followers, 95.9K engagements
"How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoics Coolest Fossils PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below One of the most dynamic transformative and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continents most amazing fossil deposits. Its a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone. Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park for their help with this episode Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping"
YouTube Link 2018-08-22T21:14Z 3.1M followers, 1.2M engagements
"The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Check out Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Back in the late Miocene epoch there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. Its a lesson in the very strange but very real powers of natural selection. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Franz Anthony:"
YouTube Link 2019-03-05T23:41Z 3.1M followers, 1.8M engagements
"The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http://alphynix.tumblr.com/ Nobu Tamura: https://spinops.blogspot.com/ Julio Lacerda: https://252mya.com/gallery/julio-lacerda This video features this"
YouTube Link 2020-07-23T21:23Z 3.1M followers, 3.9M engagements
"Fossil Feud: Eons vs SciShow Youve heard of Family Feud but how about Fossil Feud Join us for a National Fossil Day livestream to watch the Eons team compete against some of our friends from SciShow Gabriel-Philip Santos from the Alf Museum of Paleontology will be our host. Kallie Moore Blake de Pastino and Michelle Barboza-Ramirezwill be up against SciShow's Sarah Suta Stefan Chin and Savannah Geary. Lets see which team will be crowned the Champions of Deep Time Thank you to our Patrons for submitting the questions we are using and thank you to all of you who answered our survey a few weeks"
YouTube Link 2023-10-16T11:08Z 2.9M followers, 81.1K engagements
"When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth. The archaeological record is full of evidence that our ancestors lived alongside and interacted with these giant mammals for millennia. But what happened when they did interact when humans met this megafauna Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for"
YouTube Link 2019-08-07T21:18Z 3.1M followers, 1.7M engagements
"Are there dinosaur fossils in space #shorts Dinosaurs In Space Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards References: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaurs-in-space-3945429/ https://twitter.com/BitsHammer/status/1080576295208071168s=20 https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-are-pleased-to-inform-you-there-are-probably-dinosaur-remains-on-the-moon/ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25201572 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2013.1028"
YouTube Link 2022-05-02T20:36Z 3.1M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Why weren't T. rex eyes as big as their skulls #shorts Bite over sight Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards"
YouTube Link 2022-11-26T22:15Z 3.1M followers, 2.7M engagements
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