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Status: Returning Series
First Aired: June 26, 2017
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 246
Networks: PBS Digital Studios, YouTube
Genres: Documentary

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Eons(2017)

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Join hosts Hank Green, 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. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

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Season 2017

24 episodes • 2017

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Trouble With Trilobites	Jun 26, 2017
2	When Did the First Flower Bloom?	Jul 3, 2017
3	The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures	Jul 11, 2017
4	Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers	Jul 17, 2017
5	What Colors Were Dinosaurs?	Jul 24, 2017
6	The Story of Saberteeth	Jul 31, 2017
7	That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything	Aug 7, 2017
8	The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew	Aug 14, 2017
9	Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor	Aug 21, 2017
10	The Extinction That Never Happened	Aug 28, 2017
11	The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws	Sep 11, 2017
12	The Age of Giant Insects	Sep 18, 2017
13	History's Most Powerful Plants	Sep 26, 2017
14	How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?	Oct 2, 2017
15	When The Earth Was Purple	Oct 9, 2017
16	'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing	Oct 16, 2017
17	When Whales Walked	Oct 23, 2017
18	An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs	Oct 30, 2017
19	A Brief History of Geologic Time	Nov 6, 2017
20	The Search for the Earliest Life	Nov 20, 2017
21	The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers	Nov 27, 2017
22	The Last Time the Globe Warmed	Dec 4, 2017
23	What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?	Dec 11, 2017
24	When Giant Fungi Ruled	Dec 18, 2017

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Season 2018

45 episodes • 2018

#	Episode	Air Date
1	How Two Microbes Changed History	Jan 15, 2018
2	The Time Terror Birds Invaded	Jan 22, 2018
3	Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew	Jan 29, 2018
4	The Great Snake Debate	Feb 5, 2018
5	The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents	Feb 12, 2018
6	From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying	Feb 20, 2018
7	How Sex Became a Thing	Feb 26, 2018
8	The Other Explosion You Should Know About	Mar 5, 2018
9	How the Turtle Got Its Shell	Mar 12, 2018
10	What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope	Mar 19, 2018
11	The Most Useful Fossils in the World	Mar 26, 2018
12	Inside the Dinosaur Library	Apr 2, 2018
13	What Was the Ancestor of Everything?	Apr 11, 2018
14	How the Squid Lost Its Shell	Apr 17, 2018
15	How the Chalicothere Split In Two	Apr 24, 2018
16	The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts	May 2, 2018
17	The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus	May 8, 2018
18	From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans	May 16, 2018
19	That Time It Rained for Two Million Years	May 22, 2018
20	Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest	Jun 5, 2018
21	Where Did Viruses Come From?	Jun 12, 2018
22	When Fish First Breathed Air	Jun 19, 2018
23	How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms	Jun 26, 2018
24	FAQs From Our First Year	Jul 3, 2018
25	When Insects First Flew	Jul 10, 2018
26	The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake	Jul 17, 2018
27	When Fish Wore Armor	Jul 24, 2018
28	When Birds Had Teeth	Aug 7, 2018
29	How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)	Aug 14, 2018
30	How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils	Aug 22, 2018
31	The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs	Aug 28, 2018
32	Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves	Sep 6, 2018
33	When We First Walked	Sep 11, 2018
34	Did Raptorex Really Exist?	Sep 18, 2018
35	Can We Get DNA From Fossils?	Oct 2, 2018
36	When Giant Amphibians Reigned	Oct 9, 2018
37	Your Place in the Primate Family Tree	Oct 16, 2018
38	The Two People We're All Related To	Oct 23, 2018
39	When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean	Nov 6, 2018
40	When Birds Stopped Flying	Nov 14, 2018
41	When Camels Roamed North America	Nov 20, 2018
42	How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees	Nov 28, 2018
43	When Sharks Swam the Great Plains	Dec 4, 2018
44	When Apes Conquered Europe	Dec 11, 2018
45	Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct	Dec 19, 2018

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Season 2019

39 episodes • 2019

#	Episode	Air Date
1	When Humans Were Prey	Jan 8, 2019
2	How Blood Evolved (Many Times)	Jan 15, 2019
3	The Humans That Lived Before Us	Jan 29, 2019
4	The Island of Shrinking Mammoths	Feb 5, 2019
5	The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)	Feb 13, 2019
6	How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World	Feb 27, 2019
7	The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls	Mar 5, 2019
8	The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time	Mar 12, 2019
9	When We First Made Tools	Mar 26, 2019
10	When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas	Apr 2, 2019
11	When We Tamed Fire	Apr 9, 2019
12	The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time	Apr 23, 2019
13	The Croc That Ran on Hooves	May 1, 2019
14	When We Took Over the World	May 7, 2019
15	The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats	May 16, 2019
16	The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained	May 30, 2019
17	The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"	Jun 5, 2019
18	How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)	Jun 11, 2019
19	When the Synapsids Struck Back	Jun 19, 2019
20	When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas	Jun 25, 2019
21	When We Met Other Human Species	Jul 9, 2019
22	How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)	Jul 17, 2019
23	How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World	Jul 30, 2019
24	When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia	Aug 7, 2019
25	Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?	Aug 14, 2019
26	The Missing Link That Wasn’t	Aug 21, 2019
27	The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs	Aug 28, 2019
28	When Bats Took Flight	Sep 11, 2019
29	How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings	Sep 18, 2019
30	When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar	Sep 25, 2019
31	When Antarctica Was Green	Oct 3, 2019
32	The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief	Oct 16, 2019
33	When Hobbits Were Real	Oct 22, 2019
34	Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?	Oct 29, 2019
35	How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)	Nov 6, 2019
36	When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa	Nov 19, 2019
37	Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game	Nov 26, 2019
38	The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs	Dec 12, 2019
39	The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda	Dec 17, 2019

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Season 2020

39 episodes • 2020

#	Episode	Air Date
1	That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared	Jan 9, 2020
2	The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity	Jan 16, 2020
3	The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body	Jan 28, 2020
4	How South America Made the Marsupials	Feb 4, 2020
5	A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck	Feb 11, 2020
6	When the Rainforests Collapsed	Feb 19, 2020
7	How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake	Feb 27, 2020
8	When the Sahara Was Green	Mar 10, 2020
9	When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea	Mar 18, 2020
10	How the Egg Came First	Mar 25, 2020
11	How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends	Mar 31, 2020
12	When a Billion Years Disappeared	Apr 15, 2020
13	The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors	Apr 22, 2020
14	How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales	Apr 29, 2020
15	How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction	May 12, 2020
16	The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years	May 20, 2020
17	How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals	May 28, 2020
18	When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth	Jun 9, 2020
19	The World Before Plate Tectonics	Jun 16, 2020
20	When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic	Jun 24, 2020
21	How the Walrus Got Its Tusks	Jul 7, 2020
22	The Story of the Dino Stampede	Jul 16, 2020
23	The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived	Jul 23, 2020
24	The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea	Aug 5, 2020
25	How We Figured Out Fermentation	Aug 13, 2020
26	The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record	Aug 20, 2020
27	How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna	Sep 2, 2020
28	The Sea Monster from the Andes	Sep 10, 2020
29	When Rodents Had Horns	Sep 15, 2020
30	The First and Last North American Primates	Sep 30, 2020
31	How Plants Became Carnivores	Oct 7, 2020
32	How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs	Oct 13, 2020
33	Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?	Oct 28, 2020
34	How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas	Nov 10, 2020
35	The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth	Nov 19, 2020
36	How Humans Lost Their Fur	Dec 2, 2020
37	When Lizards Took Over the World	Dec 9, 2020
38	When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming	Dec 17, 2020
39	The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"	Dec 22, 2020

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Season 2021

31 episodes • 2021

#	Episode	Air Date
1	What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?	Jan 13, 2021
2	The Reign of the Hell Ants	Jan 21, 2021
3	The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years	Jan 28, 2021
4	When We First Talked	Feb 11, 2021
5	The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles	Feb 17, 2021
6	The Genes We Lost Along the Way	Feb 24, 2021
7	Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative	Mar 10, 2021
8	How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld	Mar 18, 2021
9	How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed	Mar 24, 2021
10	How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)	Apr 7, 2021
11	How To Survive the Little Ice Age	Apr 20, 2021
12	When Crocs Thrived in the Seas	Apr 29, 2021
13	When Trees Took Over the World	May 12, 2021
14	How Weasels Got Skinny	May 20, 2021
15	Where Are All The Squid Fossils?	Jun 3, 2021
16	Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?	Jul 14, 2021
17	The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals	Jul 21, 2021
18	The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths	Jul 29, 2021
19	Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?	Aug 12, 2021
20	How the Starfish Got Its Arms	Aug 24, 2021
21	The Creature That Stumped Darwin	Sep 1, 2021
22	How Pollination Got Going Twice	Sep 16, 2021
23	How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate	Sep 23, 2021
24	How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon	Sep 29, 2021
25	When Mammals Only Went Out At Night	Oct 7, 2021
26	How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean	Oct 21, 2021
27	How Dinosaurs Coupled Up	Oct 28, 2021
28	When It Was Too Hot for Leaves	Nov 17, 2021
29	Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals	Dec 2, 2021
30	The Fossil Record In Your Mouth	Dec 9, 2021
31	When Pterosaurs Walked	Dec 16, 2021

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Season 2022

68 episodes • 2022

#	Episode	Air Date
1	How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side	Jan 11, 2022
2	Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)	Jan 19, 2022
3	How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs	Jan 27, 2022
4	How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again	Feb 8, 2022
5	How Horses Went From Food To Friends	Feb 16, 2022
6	Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)	Feb 23, 2022
7	Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts	Mar 2, 2022
8	Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts	Mar 3, 2022
9	Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts	Mar 4, 2022
10	Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts	Mar 7, 2022
11	Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts	Mar 8, 2022
12	A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts	Mar 10, 2022
13	When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands	Mar 15, 2022
14	Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts	Mar 17, 2022
15	Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts	Mar 18, 2022
16	The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal	Mar 22, 2022
17	The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts	Mar 25, 2022
18	The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last	Mar 29, 2022
19	Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts	Mar 31, 2022
20	After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts	Apr 4, 2022
21	Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts	Apr 5, 2022
22	Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts	Apr 6, 2022
23	An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts	Apr 8, 2022
24	How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple	Apr 13, 2022
25	We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts	Apr 14, 2022
26	Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste	Apr 20, 2022
27	The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body	Apr 27, 2022
28	Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts	May 2, 2022
29	Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts	May 3, 2022
30	An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts	May 4, 2022
31	When Ants Domesticated Fungi	May 10, 2022
32	The Curious Case of the Cave Lion	May 17, 2022
33	Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?	May 26, 2022
34	Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts	May 27, 2022
35	What is the most successful human species? #shorts	May 31, 2022
36	Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts	Jun 1, 2022
37	This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts	Jun 2, 2022
38	What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts	Jun 3, 2022
39	How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)	Jun 8, 2022
40	Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years	Jun 15, 2022
41	Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not	Jun 29, 2022
42	This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts	Jul 6, 2022
43	Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts	Jul 7, 2022
44	There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts	Jul 8, 2022
45	When Giant Millipedes Reigned	Jul 13, 2022
46	How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles	Jul 21, 2022
47	Why Does Caffeine Exist?	Jul 28, 2022
48	This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts	Aug 3, 2022
49	Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts	Aug 3, 2022
50	You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts	Aug 5, 2022
51	This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts	Aug 5, 2022
52	Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?	Aug 11, 2022
53	How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked	Aug 18, 2022
54	The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies	Aug 23, 2022
55	Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts	Aug 31, 2022
56	A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts	Sep 8, 2022
57	A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts	Sep 9, 2022
58	Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts	Sep 13, 2022
59	Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts	Sep 14, 2022
60	Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts	Sep 16, 2022
61	When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts	Sep 17, 2022
62	Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts	Sep 22, 2022
63	Where Did Water Come From?	Sep 27, 2022
64	Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land	Oct 4, 2022
65	Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts	Oct 5, 2022
66	Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts	Oct 7, 2022
67	Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts	Oct 10, 2022
68	Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts	Oct 14, 2022

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