Eons is a show produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios wherein Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth.
From PBS Eons. You’ve heard of Family Feud… but how about Fossil Feud? Join us for a National Fossil Day livestream to watch the Eons team compete against some of our friends from SciShow! Gabriel-Philip Santos from the Alf Museum of Paleontology will be our host. Kallie Moore, Blake de Pastino and Michelle Barboza-Ramirez will be…
From PBS Eons. For decades, scientists believed dinosaurs were diurnal and tiny mammals were nocturnal. But as researchers have uncovered more mammalian fossils and studied the biology of different dinosaur species, they’ve found some surprising results. Thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://alphynix.tumblr.com/), Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JuliotheArtist), and Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com/) for their excellent reconstructions featured in this…
From PBS Eons. The Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day? Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super…
From PBS Eons. The Toba supervolcano was the biggest explosive eruption of the last 2.5 million years. And humans were around to see it, or at least feel its effects! But what were those effects? Thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the reconstructions of the supervolcano (as well as a bunch of other reconstructions used…
From PBS Eons. The world of the Jurassic was a lot like ours – similar interactions between plants and insects were happening, but the players have changed over time. Because it looks like pollination by insects actually got going twice. Thanks to Franz Anthony for the excellent reconstructions of the scorpionfly, true fly, and false…
From PBS Eons. Check out Mega Wow: https://youtu.be/meU4f31gqYI And go get our pins!! https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons Toxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossils would inspire a revolutionary thinker to tackle a bigger mystery than Toxodon itself: evolution. Thanks…
From PBS Eons. Thank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseons The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories – ones that stretch back almost half a billion years. Thanks…
From PBS Eons. The remains of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs are pretty rare in places where giant predators like T. rex existed. Which is weird, because that’s just not how ecosystems work today. Thanks to Franz Anthony, Jack Mayer Wood, ABelov2014, Fabrizio De Rossi, Nathan E. Rogers, Emily Willoughby, Julio Lacerda, and Vladimir Rimbala for their…
From PBS Eons. The Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years, after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years, the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced what’s known as a mutational meltdown. Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital…
From PBS Eons. Lots of the traits we think of as defining us as mammals show up pretty early, during the time of the dinosaurs. And, in some cases, they show up a lot earlier and in things that weren’t mammals at all. Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist) for the excellent Morganucodon and Microdocodon…
From PBS Eons. Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/Ft9nFhEjGiE At Tanque Loma, at least 22 giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths, the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their own poop. Thanks to Dr. Emily…
From PBS Eons. Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major exception. If squids were swimming around in the same oceans as their closest cousins, where did all the squids go? Thanks to Franz Anthony for the…
From PBS Eons. Weasels have an extreme body plan that may push the boundaries of what’s metabolically possible. So when and how did this happen? Why’d the weasels get so skinny? Thanks to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their incredible work in this episode! Julio Lacerda: https://twitter.com/JulioTheArtist Fabrizio de Rossi: https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabricious/ Hodari Nundu:…
From PBS Eons. 420 million years ago, the forest floor of what’s now New York was covered with a plant that didn’t look like a tree at all, except its roots were made of wood. Instead of looking up to learn about the evolution of trees, it turns out paleobotanists should’ve been looking down all…
From PBS Eons. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/BXqGkPhU2VE While dinosaurs were dominating the land, the metriorhynchids were thriving in the seas. But taking that plunge wasn’t easy because it takes a very special set of traits to fully dedicate…
From PBS Eons. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Check out Overview’s landfills episode: https://youtu.be/aHzltu6Tvl8 Celebrate Earth Day with PBS! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnNZYWyBGJ1F8ofFm4H9UTrHxqU8zngK4 Nunalleq, a village in what’s today southwest Alaska, seemed to have thrived during the Little Ice Age. How did this village manage to survive…
From PBS Eons. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Today, chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world – grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia. But how and why…
From PBS Eons. Thank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more and try it out go to http://ow.ly/m3ap30rzWfP PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently,…
From PBS Eons. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ↓ More info below ↓ Elongated tubes, flat ribbons, and other “worm-like” body plans were so varied and abundant that a part of the Ediacaran is sometimes known as Wormworld. But in the end, the ancient…