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Eons
When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
Season 2
Episode 1
The best evidence we have suggests that, while Caviomorpha originated in South America, they came from ancestors in Africa, over 40 million years ago. So how did they get there?
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9:05
Ants have been farming for 60 million years! We explore how, when and why they started.
7:56
Would it really be impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology?
7:02
Sour used to be the taste of danger. But, now its role has reversed.
6:52
This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, evolved from something bigger and more complex.
7:50
Only a few million years ago, Hyenas lived very different lives from what we know today.
8:44
A truly enormous ichthyosaur reached its size within just a few million years.
8:50
The giant pterosaur's occupied the empty Hateg Island.
9:12
We learn why all mammals today, from humans to bats, have five fingers or fewer.
6:32
With evidence from from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA, we put together horses history.
8:52
Here's why teeth would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrate.
10:21
Dinosaurs were not just carnivores or herbivores; they were occasional omnivore too.
7:53
The Snake Detection Hypothesis is deeply embedded in primates, including us.