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The Story of Saberteeth

The Story of Saberteeth

Season 1 Episode 6
5:26
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Season 1 Episode 8
4:27
The Extinction That Never Happened

The Extinction That Never Happened

Season 1 Episode 10
7:36
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

Season 1 Episode 11
3:54
The Age of Giant Insects

The Age of Giant Insects

Season 1 Episode 12
5:28
History's Most Powerful Plants

History's Most Powerful Plants

Season 1 Episode 13
5:20
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

Season 1 Episode 14
5:42
When The Earth Was Purple

When The Earth Was Purple

Season 1 Episode 15
5:37
Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

Season 1 Episode 16
5:05
When Whales Walked

When Whales Walked

Season 1 Episode 17
4:56
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What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

Season 1 Episode 5

We know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?

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When the Earth Had Supermountains
9:34
Only twice in Earth's history have supermountains risen, and both times reshaped life forever.
Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name?
12:32
Was the T-Rex given the wrong name?
Did Ancient Storms Kill These Pterosaurs?
10:05
500+ pterosaur fossils found at Solnhofen may be hiding a dark secret distorting our view of them.
Sensitive Teeth? Blame This Fish
11:08
Why are our teeth so sensitive? The answer originates in the armored skin of ancient fish.
The Fiery Rise of Flowering Plants
10:45
For flowering plants to take over, they first helped burn the old world—and then put the fires out.
When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
11:37
Ancient weeds mimicked crops, tricking farmers into domesticating friends—and enemies—by mistake.
How Brawn Led to Brains
12:14
Brains and brawn aren’t opposites—they’ve been linked far longer than we might think.
When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age
10:27
Understanding the Isthmus of Panama.
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
9:35
Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction.
How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
10:43
Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs.
Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
8:19
Fish evolved terrestrial traits to...stay fish?
Do Chins Make Us Human?
12:07
We're the only ones with chins, and we don't know why.
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