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How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs

Season 8 Episode 5
10:43
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction

How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction

Season 8 Episode 6
9:35
When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age

When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age

Season 8 Episode 8
10:27
How Brawn Led to Brains

How Brawn Led to Brains

Season 8 Episode 9
12:14
When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us

When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us

Season 8 Episode 10
11:37
The Fiery Rise of Flowering Plants

The Fiery Rise of Flowering Plants

Season 8 Episode 11
10:45
Sensitive Teeth? Blame This Fish

Sensitive Teeth? Blame This Fish

Season 8 Episode 12
11:08
Did Ancient Storms Kill These Pterosaurs?

Did Ancient Storms Kill These Pterosaurs?

Season 8 Episode 13
10:05
Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name?

Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name?

Season 8 Episode 14
12:32
That Time Earth was Sticky

That Time Earth was Sticky

10:45
When India Was An Island

When India Was An Island

11:04
Episode 5: The Calling

The Calling

Season 4 Episode 5
53:05
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Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident

Season 8 Episode 4

It’s beginning to look like our success on land, and that of all tetrapods, from frogs to dogs to dinosaurs, was just a lucky side-effect of fish trying to stay fish.
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Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?
12:29
Season 7 Episode 20
Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?
Did you know ocean basins are reincarnated?
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?
8:36
Season 7 Episode 19
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?
How did such a large predator survive?
When Red Pandas Roamed North America
9:41
Season 7 Episode 18
When Red Pandas Roamed North America
How did a relative of the red panda end up in North America?
Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air
8:10
Season 7 Episode 17
Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air
How did the competition of spiders vs insects drive them both into the air?
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
12:38
Season 7 Episode 16
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
Why plate tectonics don't make sense.
Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?
9:59
Season 7 Episode 15
Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?
Why was it the mammals who triumphed?
How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
10:09
Season 7 Episode 14
How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
What do mountains reveal about primates?
The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
10:39
Season 7 Episode 13
The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments.
How Asteroids Set the Stage for Life on Earth
10:38
Season 7 Episode 12
How Asteroids Set the Stage for Life on Earth
We may have planet-shattering asteroids...
When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
11:50
Season 7 Episode 11
When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
What doomed the Neandertals?
When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
11:25
Season 7 Episode 10
When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards?
How Animals Got Butts
12:10
Season 7 Episode 9
How Animals Got Butts
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?
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