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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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Scientists have recently discovered a major clue about the origins of the big cats.
7:50
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago.
7:45
The greatest snake that the world ever saw was made possible by a warming planet.
7:40
If it weren't for the collapse, our ancestors might never have made it out of the swamps.
9:18
Long necks gave sauropods an advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think.
9:51
Throughout the Cenozoic Era marsupials flourished all over South America.
12:00
Other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found.
9:09
Neanderthals actually behaved -- and likely thought and felt -- a lot like we do.
11:10
How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear?
9:37
Beardogs are key to understanding an important branch of the mammal family tree.