Eons
Overview:
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.
How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
Season 6 · Episode 1
Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
Season 6 · Episode 2
How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
Season 6 · Episode 3
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
Season 6 · Episode 4
How Horses Went From Food To Friends
Season 6 · Episode 5
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
Season 6 · Episode 6
Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 7
Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 8
Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 9
Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 10
Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 11
A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 12
When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
Season 6 · Episode 13
Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 14
Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 15
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
Season 6 · Episode 16
The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 17
The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Season 6 · Episode 18
Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 19
After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 20
Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 21
Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 22
An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 23
How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
Season 6 · Episode 24
We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 25
Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
Season 6 · Episode 26
The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
Season 6 · Episode 27
Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 28
Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 29
An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 30
When Ants Domesticated Fungi
Season 6 · Episode 31
The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
Season 6 · Episode 32
Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
Season 6 · Episode 33
Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 34
What is the most successful human species? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 35
Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 36
This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 37
What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 38
How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
Season 6 · Episode 39
Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
Season 6 · Episode 40
Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
Season 6 · Episode 41
This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 42
Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 43
There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 44
When Giant Millipedes Reigned
Season 6 · Episode 45
How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
Season 6 · Episode 46
Why Does Caffeine Exist?
Season 6 · Episode 47
This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 48
Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 49
You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 50
This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 51
Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
Season 6 · Episode 52
How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
Season 6 · Episode 53
The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
Season 6 · Episode 54
Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 55
A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 56
A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 57
Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 58
Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 59
Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 60
When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 61
Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 62
Where Did Water Come From?
Season 6 · Episode 63
Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
Season 6 · Episode 64
Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 65
Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 66
Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 67
Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts
Season 6 · Episode 68
Recommendations for you
Prehistoric Planet
Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.
The Dinosaurs
From the first dinosaurs to the last, this epic documentary series examines their 165 million years on Earth and the forces that shaped their evolution.
Life on Our Planet
Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.
Planet Dinosaur
The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.
American Experience
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
Finding Your Roots
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
Seven Worlds, One Planet
Millions of years ago, incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven extraordinary continents. This documentary series reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.
Who Do You Think You Are?
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
Nature
Consistently stunning documentaries transport viewers to far-flung locations ranging from the torrid African plains to the chilly splendours of icy Antarctica. The show's primary focus is on animals and ecosystems around the world. A comic book based on the show, meant to be used an as educational tool for kids, was briefly distributed to museums and schools at no cost in the mid-2000s.
Natural World
Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.
Our Planet
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
Ancient Apocalypse
Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. He attempts to prove that a climatic event 12,000 years ago wiped out an entire civilization far more sophisticated than the simple hunter-gatherers some archaeologists believe lived at that time.
Superpowered: The DC Story
This docuseries takes an unprecedented look at the enduring and influential legacy of DC, allowing fans to rediscover the universe of characters, as well as the iconic comic book company’s origins, its evolution and its nearly nine-decade cultural impact across every artistic medium.
History's Greatest Mysteries
Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Fresh, new evidence and perspectives will be showcased, such as never-before-released documents, personal diaries and DNA evidence.
Biography
Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and hosted by Mike Wallace. The A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The older version featured historical figures such as Helen Keller and Mark Twain, or long-dead entertainment figures such as Will Rogers or John Barrymore. The A&E series has placed the emphasis on such people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and Queen Elizabeth II, and fictional characters like The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, and Santa Claus. The program ended up profiling enough figures that in 1999, A&E spun it off into an entire network, The Biography Channel.
Earth at Night in Colour
Filmed across six continents, this docuseries uses cutting-edge camera technology to capture animals' nocturnal lives, revealing new behaviours filmed in full color like never before.
Antiques Roadshow
Antiques Roadshow is a British television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979. There are also international versions of the programme.
Ancient Aliens
Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago? From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate.
Sea Monsters
Zoologist Nigel Marvin travels back in time to visit deadly creatures of the prehistoric oceans.
The Reluctant Traveller with Eugene Levy
Award-winning actor and nervous explorer Eugene Levy steps out of his comfort zone for a whirlwind tour of the world's most beautiful and intriguing destinations.