Eons

Every Eons video ever (minus Shorts and podcasts). Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- rig…

263 videos · PBS Eons

• 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? (feat. PBS Space Time and It’s Okay To Be Smart)
• 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 (w/ SciShow!)
• 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