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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.
Episode 24 : When Giant Fungi Ruled
December. 18,2017
420 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.
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Episode 23 : What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
December. 11,2017
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.
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Episode 22 : The Last Time the Globe Warmed
December. 04,2017
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)
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Episode 21 : The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
November. 27,2017
Over the past 20 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.
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Episode 20 : The Search for the Earliest Life
November. 20,2017
More than 4 billion years ago, the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent years, we’ve started to discover that, even in this hellish environment, life found a way.
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Episode 19 : A Brief History of Geologic Time
November. 06,2017
By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s 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.
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Episode 18 : An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
October. 30,2017
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let's explore the history of dinosaur science as seen through the history of dinosaur art.
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Episode 17 : When Whales Walked
October. 23,2017
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.
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Episode 16 : 'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
October. 16,2017
Crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. But even the most ancient-looking organisms show us that evolution is always at work.
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Episode 15 : When The Earth Was Purple
October. 09,2017
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.
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Episode 14 : How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
October. 02,2017
Part of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it’s just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, creatures as tall as a five-story building were shaking the Earth.
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Episode 13 : History's Most Powerful Plants
September. 26,2017
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Colorado to China.
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Episode 12 : The Age of Giant Insects
September. 18,2017
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 weren’t always so small. About 315 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, they were not only abundant: they were enormous.
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Episode 11 : The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
September. 11,2017
There are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned. One of the longest-running of these mysteries involved a 270-million-year-old sea creature called Helicoprion that once swam the seas around the supercontinent of Pangea.
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Episode 10 : The Extinction That Never Happened
August. 28,2017
Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.
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Episode 9 : Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
August. 21,2017
With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even crocodiles. But if you take a close look at this sail-backed animal, you might see a little bit of yourself.
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Episode 8 : The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
August. 14,2017
Today, we’re familiar with two types of flying vertebrates -- birds and bats. But over 66 million years ago, there was a giraffe-sized reptile that soared through the sky.
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Episode 7 : That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
August. 07,2017
What if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you’d never recognize, too much of a good thing almost ruined everything for everybody.
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Episode 6 : The Story of Saberteeth
July. 31,2017
Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it was only the last and largest of the great sabertooths: ridiculously long canines had already been a trend for millions of years by the time Smilodon was prowling around. And you know what? Those giant teeth just might make a comeback.
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Episode 5 : What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
July. 24,2017
We know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?
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Episode 4 : Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
July. 17,2017
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 wonderfulest.
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Episode 3 : The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
July. 11,2017
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.
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Episode 2 : When Did the First Flower Bloom?
July. 03,2017
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.
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Episode 1 : The Trouble With Trilobites
June. 26,2017
Trilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They’re known the world over because they were everywhere!
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