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Eons (2017)

2017 US 6 Seasons 246 Episodes

Documentary

Overview

Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino guide viewers on an enlightening exploration of Earth's biological history in Eons. The journey spans from the Archaean Eon, marking life's inception, through the Mesozoic Era—famous for its dinosaurs—culminating at the conclusion of the last Ice Age. The hosts delve into the fascinating evolutionary paths of mammals, including humans and contemporary species, sharing insights from their expertise in paleontology. Each episode offers a captivating glimpse into the intricate tapestry of life’s development over eons.

Cast

Kallie Moore Blake de Pastino Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

Episodes

The Trouble With Trilobites

When Did the First Flower Bloom?

The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

The Story of Saberteeth

That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor

The Extinction That Never Happened

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

The Age of Giant Insects

History's Most Powerful Plants

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

When The Earth Was Purple

'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

When Whales Walked

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

A Brief History of Geologic Time

The Search for the Earliest Life

The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

When Giant Fungi Ruled

How Two Microbes Changed History

The Time Terror Birds Invaded

Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

The Great Snake Debate

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying

How Sex Became a Thing

The Other Explosion You Should Know About

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope

The Most Useful Fossils in the World

Inside the Dinosaur Library

What Was the Ancestor of Everything?

How the Squid Lost Its Shell

How the Chalicothere Split In Two

The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts

The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus

From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

Where Did Viruses Come From?

When Fish First Breathed Air

How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

FAQs From Our First Year

When Insects First Flew

The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

When Fish Wore Armor

When Birds Had Teeth

How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)

How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves

When We First Walked

Did Raptorex Really Exist?

Can We Get DNA From Fossils?

When Giant Amphibians Reigned

Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

The Two People We're All Related To

When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

When Birds Stopped Flying

When Camels Roamed North America

How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees

When Sharks Swam the Great Plains

When Apes Conquered Europe

Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct

When Humans Were Prey

How Blood Evolved (Many Times)

The Humans That Lived Before Us

The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)

How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World

The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

When We First Made Tools

When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

When We Tamed Fire

The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time

The Croc That Ran on Hooves

When We Took Over the World

The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained

The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"

How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)

When the Synapsids Struck Back

When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas

When We Met Other Human Species

How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)

How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World

When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia

Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?

The Missing Link That Wasn’t

The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs

When Bats Took Flight

How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings

When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar

When Antarctica Was Green

The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief

When Hobbits Were Real

Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?

How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)

When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa

Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game

The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs

The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda

That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity

The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

How South America Made the Marsupials

A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

When the Rainforests Collapsed

How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

When the Sahara Was Green

When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

How the Egg Came First

How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends

When a Billion Years Disappeared

The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors

How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years

How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

The World Before Plate Tectonics

When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

The Story of the Dino Stampede

The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

How We Figured Out Fermentation

The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record

How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

The Sea Monster from the Andes

When Rodents Had Horns

The First and Last North American Primates

How Plants Became Carnivores

How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

How Humans Lost Their Fur

When Lizards Took Over the World

When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming

The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"

What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

The Reign of the Hell Ants

The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

When We First Talked

The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles

The Genes We Lost Along the Way

Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative

How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

When Trees Took Over the World

How Weasels Got Skinny

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?

The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

How the Starfish Got Its Arms

The Creature That Stumped Darwin

How Pollination Got Going Twice

How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate

How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

When Mammals Only Went Out At Night

How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean

How Dinosaurs Coupled Up

When It Was Too Hot for Leaves

Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals

The Fossil Record In Your Mouth

When Pterosaurs Walked

How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side

Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)

How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs

How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again

How Horses Went From Food To Friends

Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)

Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts

Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts

Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts

Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts

Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts

A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts

When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands

Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts

Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts

The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal

The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts

The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last

Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts

After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts

How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

Where Did Water Come From?

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts

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

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