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How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

Season 3 Episode 40
9:32
When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

Season 3 Episode 41
9:08
How To Survive the Little Ice Age

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

Season 3 Episode 42
10:00
When Trees Took Over the World

When Trees Took Over the World

Season 3 Episode 43
7:28
How Weasels Got Skinny

How Weasels Got Skinny

Season 3 Episode 44
9:01
Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Season 3 Episode 45
7:21
Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?

Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?

Season 4 Episode 1
10:01
The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

Season 4 Episode 2
7:44
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

Season 4 Episode 3
8:06
Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

Season 4 Episode 4
11:01
How the Starfish Got Its Arms

How the Starfish Got Its Arms

Season 4 Episode 5
10:53
The Creature That Stumped Darwin

The Creature That Stumped Darwin

Season 4 Episode 6
6:46
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Eons

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

Season 3 Episode 39

No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. And yet, being a leftie does seem to come with some unexpected advantages.
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How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
9:35
Season 8 Episode 6
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction.
How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
10:43
Season 8 Episode 5
How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs.
Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
8:19
Season 8 Episode 4
Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
Fish evolved terrestrial traits to...stay fish?
Do Chins Make Us Human?
12:07
Season 8 Episode 3
Do Chins Make Us Human?
We're the only ones with chins, and we don't know why.
The Golden Age of Sharks
12:40
Season 8 Episode 2
The Golden Age of Sharks
Why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during the Golden Age?
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
12:12
Season 7 Episode 21
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
What was Charles Darwin really obsessed with?
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?
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