From PBS Eons. Check out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrk The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for that time when the rainforests collapsed – in an extinction event that you probably haven’t heard of – our…

From PBS Eons. Check out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrk The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it weren’t for that time when the rainforests collapsed – in an extinction event that you probably haven’t heard of – our…

From PBS Eons. Check out PBS Zest: https://www.youtube.com/pbszest Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow them to become the biggest terrestrial animals of all time! Thanks to Nathan E Rogers (https://252mya.com/gallery/nathan-e-rogers) and Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/juliotheartist) for their dinosaur…

From PBS Eons. Throughout the Cenozoic Era — the era we’re in now — marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents. Thanks to Darin Croft and Velizar Simeonovski for allowing us to use illustrations that can…

From PBS Eons. From end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull, no feet, almost nothing that could give experts a fuller picture of what this dinosaur…

From PBS Eons. Eons socks, shirts, pins, and more! https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Neandertals were thought to have been…primitive. Unintelligent, hunched-over cavemen, for lack of a better word. But the discoveries made in that Iraqi cave provided some of the earliest clues that Neanderthals actually behaved — and likely thought…

From PBS Eons. Download the PBS Video App: https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/ How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just…disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies to even start to figure out the cause — or causes — of one of the greatest vanishing acts in Earth’s history. Special thanks…

From PBS Eons. To discover more go about the LEGO Ideas Tree House set go to  https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/tree-house-21318?CMP=SOC-PBSEons21318 How does a bear — which is a member of the order Carnivora — evolve into an herbivore? Despite how it looks, nothing about the history of the giant panda is black and white. Thanks to Ceri Thomas…

From PBS Eons. Because of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits, they’re sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though you’ve never met one of these animals, the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the mammal family tree. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (http://alphynix.tumblr.com) and Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist)…

From PBS Eons. Eons Socks! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-socks Check out Ours Poetica: https://youtu.be/8NK2gXouhBU Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one of the mysteries about these charismatic megafauna: why do most remains…

From PBS Eons. Thanks to Raycon wireless earphones for supporting PBS. Go to http://buyraycon.com/eons to learn more. These hyaenodonts gave the world some of its largest terrestrial, carnivorous mammals ever known. And while these behemoths were the apex predators of their time, they were no match for a changing world. Thanks to Dr. Matthew Borths…

From PBS Eons. A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start? And how did humans help cats take over the world?  Big thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their…

From PBS Eons. Check out Monstrum’s full episode on Cyclops: https://youtu.be/s-pMfIWl4kI People have been discovering the traces and remains of prehistoric creatures for thousands of years. And they’ve also probably been telling stories about fantastic beasts since language became a thing. So, is it possible that the monsters that populate our myths and legends were influenced…

From PBS Eons. Thanks to Raycon wireless earphones for supporting PBS. Go to http://buyraycon.com/eons to learn more. Subscribe to Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Its discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but it’s often called “the hobbit” for its short stature and oddly proportioned feet. And it’s been at the center of a major controversy in the field…

From PBS Eons. Check out Serving Up Science! https://youtube.com/PBSFood Paleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were originally thought to be, raptors like this one would reveal themselves to actually…

From PBS Eons. Help Eons out and fill out this survey! https://www.pbsresearch.org/c/r/Eons_YTvideo Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago–Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. And it turns out that a lot of what we recognize about the southern hemisphere can be traced back to that time when…

From PBS Eons. Our new pin! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pin Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place, and how did they help shape the unique environments of Madagascar? And how did they get winnowed down, leaving only…