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” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.
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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Fossils found around the world suggest that multi-cellular life was not only present before the Cambrian Explosion, it was much more elaborate and diverse than anyone thought. This is the story of the sudden burst of diversity that marked the dawn of truly complex life on our planet. Thanks to Franz Anthony and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Franz's work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/franz-anthony Thanks as always to Nobu Tamura for allowing us to use his wonderful paleoart: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ 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: http://www.stratigraphy.org/gssp/ediacaran.pdf http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/ediacaran.php http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/10/e1500800.full http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/science/origin/03-enigmatic-edicarans.php http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/ediacara.html https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708336105 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5687/1141.full http://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5859/81.full http://www.pnas.org/content/111/36/13122.full http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1793/20141202 http://www.pnas.org/content/97/13/6947.full