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Animals Are Older Than We Thought
Season 6
Episode 13
What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself? Turns out, there might've been a long, slow-burning fuse that ultimately ignited the Cambrian Explosion.

7:28
The case of the dinosaur egg thief.

11:03
When Antarctica was green.

10:09
Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs.

8:33
How pterosaurs got their wings.

11:09
When Bats Took Flight

8:35
The raptor that made us rethink dinosaurs.

9:54
There is no missing link in our lineage, because that’s not how evolution works.

10:37
Was this dinosaur a cannibal?

6:53
Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth.

10:12
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World

10:29
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth...Twice

12:56
We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we weren’t alone.