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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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Eons

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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Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
6:37
Diictodon used burrows to breed and a male parent may have stayed behind to feed it.
The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
8:09
Large feline roamed Eurasia and Its fossils have been found across the continent.
When Ants Domesticated Fungi
9:05
Ants have been farming for 60 million years! We explore how, when and why they started.
The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
7:56
Would it really be impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology?
Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
7:02
Sour used to be the taste of danger. But, now its role has reversed.
How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
6:52
This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, evolved from something bigger and more complex.
The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
7:50
Only a few million years ago, Hyenas lived very different lives from what we know today.
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
8:44
A truly enormous ichthyosaur reached its size within just a few million years.
When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
8:50
The giant pterosaur's occupied the empty Hateg Island.
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
9:12
We learn why all mammals today, from humans to bats, have five fingers or fewer.
How Horses Went From Food To Friends
6:32
With evidence from from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA, we put together horses history.
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
8:52
Here's why teeth would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrate.
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