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 ↓ Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons There are fossils of viruses, of sorts, preserved in the DNA of the hosts that they’ve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from, how they evolved and it can even help us tackle the biggest question of all: Are viruses alive? 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: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094976/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19270719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758182/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190193/ https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00679842/document http://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/paleovirology/site/html/posts/2013-04-15_what_is_paleovirology.html http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/giant-viruses-found-austrian-sewage-fuel-debate-over-potential-fourth-domain-life https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/cells/viruses/a/are-viruses-dead-or-alive https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/yellowstone/viruslive.html https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origins-of-viruses-14398218# https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-the-giant-mimivirus-14402410 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2976387/ https://www.nature.com/news/giant-viruses-open-pandora-s-box-1.13410 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19561090 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2906475/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179036/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/a-7000-year-old-virus-sequenced-from-a-neolithic-mans-tooth/559862/ http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q9P2P1 http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1001191