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 ↓ To learn more about The Great Courses Plus* go to http://ow.ly/x0Hi30egd4K 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. Thanks to Lucas Lima and Studio 252mya for their illustrations. You can find more of Lucas' work here: https://252mya.com/gallery/lucas-lima 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://web.neomed.edu/web/anatomy/Thewissen/whale_origins/index.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255721304_Ambulocetus_natans_an_Eocene_Cetacean_Mammalia_from_Pakistan https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12052-009-0135-2 http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/a-walking-whale-ambulocetus/ http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/a/ambulocetus.html http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03 http://stories.anmm.gov.au/whale-evolution/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/take-deep-dive-reasons-land-animals-moved-seas-180955007/ http://repository.ias.ac.in/4642/1/316.pdf https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4899-0159-0_14 https://www.britannica.com/science/Eocene-Epoch http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/whale-evolution/mueller-text/4 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/ocean-giants-going-aquatic-cetacean-evolution/7577/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/why-did-the-biggest-whales-get-so-big/527874/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLNn7tZJfNY http://www.pnas.org/content/96/18/10261.short https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071218/full/news.2007.388.html https://books.google.com/books?id=udCnKce9hfoC&pg=PA391&lpg=PA391&dq=astragalus+bone+artiodactyla&source=bl&ots=vN2lvOVMWi&sig=xlwWl2JECUvYPl3aofimxAjwVrw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGsNG0zvDVAhUUUWMKHTbAACcQ6AEImwEwFw#v=onepage&q=astragalus%20bone%20artiodactyla&f=false http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/449/god%20in%20the%20gaps/early%20whale%20hands%20and%20feet.pdf https://phys.org/news/2005-01-scientists-link-whale-closest-relative.html http://www.pnas.org/content/96/18/10261.short https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12052-009-0135-2 *The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally.