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When Apes Conquered Europe

Season 2 Episode 6
8:08
When Humans Were Prey

When Humans Were Prey

Season 2 Episode 8
9:21
How Blood Evolved (Many Times)

How Blood Evolved (Many Times)

Season 2 Episode 9
9:56
The Humans That Lived Before Us

The Humans That Lived Before Us

Season 2 Episode 10
11:52
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

Season 2 Episode 11
11:20
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

Season 2 Episode 15
8:33
When We First Made Tools

When We First Made Tools

Season 2 Episode 16
9:08
Ancient Fauna, Flora & Fungi

When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

Season 2 Episode 17
11:38
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Eons

When Sharks Swam the Great Plains

Season 2 Episode 5

If you’ve ever been to, or lived in, or even flown over the central swath of North America, then you’ve seen the remnants of what was a uniquely fascinating environment. Scientists call it the Western Interior Seaway, and at its greatest extent, it ran from the Caribbean Sea to the Canadian Arctic.

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Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
10:37
Was this dinosaur a cannibal?
When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
6:53
Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth.
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
10:12
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice
10:29
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice
When We Met Other Human Species
12:56
We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we weren’t alone.
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
9:38
When Ihthyosaurs led a revolution in the seas.
When the Synapsids Struck Back
10:10
Our world is the way it is because of the time when the synapsids struck back.
How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
12:09
We’ll try to explain how evolution actually works and how we came to understand it.
The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
7:17
There is some evolutionary method to the anatomical madness that is the "hell pig."
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino)
13:14
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explain
The Croc That Ran on Hooves
8:41
How did this living nightmare come to evolve?
The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
10:41
The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
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