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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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9:14
How did ants take over the world?
9:31
This is how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period.
8:03
What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
8:10
About 6,000 years ago, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush savannah in Africa.
9:01
The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works.
11:03
Another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.
8:03
In between two islands of Indonesia, there’s a line that is both real and not real.
8:40
From an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?
8:52
For plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better
7:16
What’s the real story of the dodo?
9:54
A new group of predators began to hunt nautiloids
9:11
Some of the most important genes were once considered genomic junk.