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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
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

Season 1 Episode 18
12:20
A Brief History of Geologic Time

A Brief History of Geologic Time

Season 1 Episode 19
12:08
The Search for the Earliest Life

The Search for the Earliest Life

Season 1 Episode 20
5:37
The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

Season 1 Episode 21
10:01
The Last Time the Globe Warmed

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

Season 1 Episode 22
9:54
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Eons

The Extinction That Never Happened

Season 1 Episode 10

Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.

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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
9:20
The Pandemic that Lasted 15 Million Years
The Reign of the Hell Ants
10:09
Explore The History And Disappearance Of The Hell Ants.
The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldn’t Build A Dam
7:32
Today's Beavers Are Pretty Special And Here's Why.
The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
10:11
History Of This Two-faced Creature And What It Can Teach Us About Mass Extinction.
When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
10:21
The Heated Debate Around Younger Dryas.
This is Lizards' Fascinating And Competitive History.
How Humans Lost Their Fur
11:27
This small change in our appearance has helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.
The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
7:53
It arose from rhino ancestors, but Paraceratherium took a different evolutionary path.
How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
8:48
Aegirocassis may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician.
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
6:46
What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful?
How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
7:52
We’ve only started to get to the bottom of how clubs worked and how it developed.
How Plants Became Carnivores
9:48
How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving?
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