Eons

Jun 26, 2017 (en) Documentary [10] Min
  • First Air Date
    Jun 26, 2017
  • Production
    PBS Digital Studios
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    Eons
  • Release
    Jun 26, 2017
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Overview

Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer

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Specials ( 2017-06-22)

A Quick Introduction to Eons

Episode: 1

Eons Livestream Q&A

Episode: 2

Eons Is Evolving! Join Us on Patreon!

Episode: 3

Eons 1-Year Birthday Livestream!!!!

Episode: 4

National Fossil Day Livestream!

Episode: 5

Fossil Feud: Eons vs SciShow!

Episode: 6

Season 2017 ( 2017-06-26)

The Trouble With Trilobites

Episode: 1

When Did the First Flower Bloom?

Episode: 2

The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

Episode: 3

Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

Episode: 4

What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

Episode: 5

The Story of Saberteeth

Episode: 6

That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything

Episode: 7

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Episode: 8

Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor

Episode: 9

The Extinction That Never Happened

Episode: 10

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

Episode: 11

The Age of Giant Insects

Episode: 12

History's Most Powerful Plants

Episode: 13

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

Episode: 14

When The Earth Was Purple

Episode: 15

'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

Episode: 16

When Whales Walked

Episode: 17

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

Episode: 18

A Brief History of Geologic Time

Episode: 19

The Search for the Earliest Life

Episode: 20

The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

Episode: 21

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

Episode: 22

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

Episode: 23

When Giant Fungi Ruled

Episode: 24

Season 2018 ( 2018-01-15)

How Two Microbes Changed History

Episode: 1

The Time Terror Birds Invaded

Episode: 2

Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

Episode: 3

The Great Snake Debate

Episode: 4

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

Episode: 5

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying

Episode: 6

How Sex Became a Thing

Episode: 7

The Other Explosion You Should Know About

Episode: 8

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

Episode: 9

What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope

Episode: 10

The Most Useful Fossils in the World

Episode: 11

Inside the Dinosaur Library

Episode: 12

What Was the Ancestor of Everything?

Episode: 13

How the Squid Lost Its Shell

Episode: 14

How the Chalicothere Split In Two

Episode: 15

The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts

Episode: 16

The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus

Episode: 17

From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

Episode: 18

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

Episode: 19

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

Episode: 20

Where Did Viruses Come From?

Episode: 21

When Fish First Breathed Air

Episode: 22

How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

Episode: 23

FAQs From Our First Year

Episode: 24

When Insects First Flew

Episode: 25

The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

Episode: 26

When Fish Wore Armor

Episode: 27

When Birds Had Teeth

Episode: 28

How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)

Episode: 29

How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

Episode: 30

The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

Episode: 31

Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves

Episode: 32

When We First Walked

Episode: 33

Did Raptorex Really Exist?

Episode: 34

Can We Get DNA From Fossils?

Episode: 35

When Giant Amphibians Reigned

Episode: 36

Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

Episode: 37

The Two People We're All Related To

Episode: 38

When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

Episode: 39

When Birds Stopped Flying

Episode: 40

When Camels Roamed North America

Episode: 41

How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees

Episode: 42

When Sharks Swam the Great Plains

Episode: 43

When Apes Conquered Europe

Episode: 44

Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct

Episode: 45

Season 2019 ( 2019-01-08)

When Humans Were Prey

Episode: 1

How Blood Evolved (Many Times)

Episode: 2

The Humans That Lived Before Us

Episode: 3

The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

Episode: 4

The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)

Episode: 5

How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World

Episode: 6

The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls

Episode: 7

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

Episode: 8

When We First Made Tools

Episode: 9

When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

Episode: 10

When We Tamed Fire

Episode: 11

The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time

Episode: 12

The Croc That Ran on Hooves

Episode: 13

When We Took Over the World

Episode: 14

The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

Episode: 15

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

Episode: 16

The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"

Episode: 17

How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)

Episode: 18

When the Synapsids Struck Back

Episode: 19

When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas

Episode: 20

When We Met Other Human Species

Episode: 21

How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)

Episode: 22

How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World

Episode: 23

When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia

Episode: 24

Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?

Episode: 25

The Missing Link That Wasn’t

Episode: 26

The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs

Episode: 27

When Bats Took Flight

Episode: 28

How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings

Episode: 29

When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar

Episode: 30

When Antarctica Was Green

Episode: 31

The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief

Episode: 32

When Hobbits Were Real

Episode: 33

Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?

Episode: 34

How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)

Episode: 35

When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa

Episode: 36

Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game

Episode: 37

The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs

Episode: 38

The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda

Episode: 39

Season 2020 ( 2020-01-09)

That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

Episode: 1

The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity

Episode: 2

The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

Episode: 3

How South America Made the Marsupials

Episode: 4

A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

Episode: 5

When the Rainforests Collapsed

Episode: 6

How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

Episode: 7

When the Sahara Was Green

Episode: 8

When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

Episode: 9

How the Egg Came First

Episode: 10

How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends

Episode: 11

When a Billion Years Disappeared

Episode: 12

The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors

Episode: 13

How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

Episode: 14

How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

Episode: 15

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

Episode: 16

How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

Episode: 17

When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

Episode: 18

The World Before Plate Tectonics

Episode: 19

When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

Episode: 20

How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

Episode: 21

The Story of the Dino Stampede

Episode: 22

The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

Episode: 23

The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

Episode: 24

How We Figured Out Fermentation

Episode: 25

The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record

Episode: 26

How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

Episode: 27

The Sea Monster from the Andes

Episode: 28

When Rodents Had Horns

Episode: 29

The First and Last North American Primates

Episode: 30

How Plants Became Carnivores

Episode: 31

How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

Episode: 32

Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

Episode: 33

How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

Episode: 34

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

Episode: 35

How Humans Lost Their Fur

Episode: 36

When Lizards Took Over the World

Episode: 37

When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming

Episode: 38

The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"

Episode: 39

Season 2021 ( 2021-01-13)

What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

Episode: 1

The Reign of the Hell Ants

Episode: 2

The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

Episode: 3

When We First Talked

Episode: 4

The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles

Episode: 5

The Genes We Lost Along the Way

Episode: 6

Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative

Episode: 7

How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

Episode: 8

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

Episode: 9

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

Episode: 10

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

Episode: 11

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

Episode: 12

When Trees Took Over the World

Episode: 13

How Weasels Got Skinny

Episode: 14

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Episode: 15

Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?

Episode: 16

The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

Episode: 17

The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

Episode: 18

Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

Episode: 19

How the Starfish Got Its Arms

Episode: 20

The Creature That Stumped Darwin

Episode: 21

How Pollination Got Going Twice

Episode: 22

How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate

Episode: 23

How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

Episode: 24

When Mammals Only Went Out At Night

Episode: 25

How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean

Episode: 26

How Dinosaurs Coupled Up

Episode: 27

When It Was Too Hot for Leaves

Episode: 28

Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals

Episode: 29

The Fossil Record In Your Mouth

Episode: 30

When Pterosaurs Walked

Episode: 31

Season 2022 ( 2022-01-11)

How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side

Episode: 1

Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)

Episode: 2

How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs

Episode: 3

How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again

Episode: 4

How Horses Went From Food To Friends

Episode: 5

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

Episode: 6

Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts

Episode: 7

Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts

Episode: 8

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

Episode: 9

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

Episode: 10

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

Episode: 11

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

Episode: 12

When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands

Episode: 13

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

Episode: 14

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

Episode: 15

The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal

Episode: 16

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

Episode: 17

The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last

Episode: 18

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

Episode: 19

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

Episode: 20

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

Episode: 21

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

Episode: 22

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

Episode: 23

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

Episode: 24

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

Episode: 25

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

Episode: 26

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

Episode: 27

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

Episode: 28

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

Episode: 29

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

Episode: 30

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

Episode: 31

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

Episode: 32

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

Episode: 33

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

Episode: 34

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

Episode: 35

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

Episode: 36

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

Episode: 37

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

Episode: 38

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

Episode: 39

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

Episode: 40

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

Episode: 41

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

Episode: 42

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

Episode: 43

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

Episode: 44

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

Episode: 45

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

Episode: 46

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

Episode: 47

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

Episode: 48

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

Episode: 49

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

Episode: 50

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

Episode: 51

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

Episode: 52

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

Episode: 53

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies

Episode: 54

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

Episode: 55

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

Episode: 56

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

Episode: 57

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

Episode: 58

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

Episode: 59

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

Episode: 60

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

Episode: 61

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

Episode: 62

Where Did Water Come From?

Episode: 63

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

Episode: 64

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

Episode: 65

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

Episode: 66

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

Episode: 67

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

Episode: 68
Jun 26, 2017 (en)
Documentary
[10] Min
  • First Air Date Jun 26, 2017
  • Production
    PBS Digital Studios
  • Rotten tomato 0%
Original Title Eons
en

Overview

Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

  1. Music Supervisor

  2. Producer