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When Insects First Flew

Season 1 Episode 49
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When Birds Had Teeth

Season 1 Episode 52
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When We First Walked

When We First Walked

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Season 1 Episode 58
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Eons

FAQs From Our First Year

Season 1 Episode 48

Over the first season of PBS Eons, we’ve explored the history of Earth from the very origins of life right up to the Cenozoic Era that we’re in now. To celebrate our first anniversary together, we’d like to answer some of your most frequently asked questions.

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How Animals Got Butts
12:10
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?
What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals?
12:28
Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance.
The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot
9:19
Where are all the east coast dinosaurs?
Where Did the Moon Come From?
10:50
Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine.
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10:04
The Himalayas changed everything.
How The Elephant Got Its Trunk
11:53
What led to the creation of the trunk?
What's the Oldest Beverage
11:55
What was the first ever drink?
The Mystery of South America's False Horses
9:45
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive?
When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent
10:21
Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?
The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
8:04
Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…
No Single Cradle of Humankind
10:46
Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?
The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
10:18
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?
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