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How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

Season 3 Episode 5
8:27
How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

Season 3 Episode 6
9:31
The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years

The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years

Season 3 Episode 7
9:11
How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

Season 3 Episode 8
10:44
When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

Season 3 Episode 9
7:23
The World Before Plate Tectonics

The World Before Plate Tectonics

Season 3 Episode 10
9:24
When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

Season 3 Episode 11
9:20
How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

Season 3 Episode 12
7:42
The Story of the Dino Stampede

The Story of the Dino Stampede

Season 3 Episode 13
10:43
The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

Season 3 Episode 14
7:05
The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

Season 3 Episode 15
12:11
How We Figured Out Fermentation

How We Figured Out Fermentation

Season 3 Episode 16
9:20
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Eons

The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors

Season 3 Episode 4

We can track our history of eating just about anything back through the fossil record and see the impact it’s had on our evolution. Throughout time, part of the secret to our success as a species has been our early - and sometimes fatal - experimentation with food.
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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?
How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
10:09
Season 7 Episode 14
How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
What do mountains reveal about primates?
The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
10:39
Season 7 Episode 13
The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments.
How Asteroids Set the Stage for Life on Earth
10:38
Season 7 Episode 12
How Asteroids Set the Stage for Life on Earth
We may have planet-shattering asteroids...
When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
11:50
Season 7 Episode 11
When Neandertals Became Apex Predators
What doomed the Neandertals?
When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
11:25
Season 7 Episode 10
When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards?
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