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The Time Terror Birds Invaded

The Time Terror Birds Invaded

Season 1 Episode 26
5:32
Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

Season 1 Episode 27
6:11
The Great Snake Debate

The Great Snake Debate

Season 1 Episode 28
6:28
The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

Season 1 Episode 29
8:40
How Sex Became A Thing

How Sex Became A Thing

Season 1 Episode 31
5:39
How the Turtle Got Its Shell

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

Season 1 Episode 33
8:29
The Most Useful Fossils In The World

The Most Useful Fossils In The World

Season 1 Episode 35
5:49
Inside the Dinosaur Library

Inside the Dinosaur Library

Season 1 Episode 36
7:19
What Was the Ancestor of Everything?

What Was the Ancestor of Everything?

Season 1 Episode 37
11:06
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How Two Microbes Changed History

Season 1 Episode 25

What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you?

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That Time the American West Blew Up
9:57
How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?
How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains
10:42
Our brains actually shrank relative to our bodies in evolution.
The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs
7:23
Hidden in rocks may have animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.
These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible
9:26
Hidden in rocks may have animal kingdom’s oldest known predator.
Could Neanderthals Use Symbolism?
8:09
We explore what we have in common with our ancient cousins.
When Our Culture Changed Our DNA
9:19
We have become the ultimate niche builders.
These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy
9:58
Beneath their shell, the crustaceans hold an evolutionary mystery.
How Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?
7:20
The answer is part of a decades-long debate.
When A Marsupial Became An Apex Predator
10:04
In Australia, evolution built a family of deadly predators.
We Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought
7:28
We focus on the DNA we got from our Neanderthals.
How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
7:20
Seahorses are one of the ocean's worst swimmers but their origin story is great.
Are We All Actually Archaea?
8:21
In recent years, Archaea's connection to us has been pretty huge and surprising.
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