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When Red Pandas Roamed North America

When Red Pandas Roamed North America

Season 7 Episode 18
9:41
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?

Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?

Season 7 Episode 19
8:36
Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?

Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?

Season 7 Episode 20
12:29
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession

Season 7 Episode 21
12:12
The Golden Age of Sharks

The Golden Age of Sharks

Season 8 Episode 2
12:40
Do Chins Make Us Human?

Do Chins Make Us Human?

Season 8 Episode 3
12:07
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction

How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction

Season 8 Episode 6
9:35
How Brawn Led to Brains

How Brawn Led to Brains

Season 8 Episode 9
12:14
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Eons

The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth

Season 7 Episode 16

Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it.

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Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
9:19
In 2003, microbiologists made this huge discovery.
Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
9:42
Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. What could it be?
We Can “Bring Back” The Woolly Mammoth. Should We?
6:40
We may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.
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.
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