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What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

Season 1 Episode 5
5:02
The Story of Saberteeth

The Story of Saberteeth

Season 1 Episode 6
5:26
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Season 1 Episode 8
4:27
The Extinction That Never Happened

The Extinction That Never Happened

Season 1 Episode 10
7:36
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

Season 1 Episode 11
3:54
The Age of Giant Insects

The Age of Giant Insects

Season 1 Episode 12
5:28
History's Most Powerful Plants

History's Most Powerful Plants

Season 1 Episode 13
5:20
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

Season 1 Episode 14
5:42
When The Earth Was Purple

When The Earth Was Purple

Season 1 Episode 15
5:37
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The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

Season 1 Episode 3

There are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was worthy of the name, it might have been the Tully Monster.

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The Mystery of South America's False Horses
9:45
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive?
When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent
10:21
Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?
The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
8:04
Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…
No Single Cradle of Humankind
10:46
Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?
The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
10:18
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?
What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
9:34
We’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
What Was The Earliest Surgery?
7:59
When did we start practicing medicine in its varied, complex forms?
How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
9:11
For some, the rise of venomous elapid snakes was an almost apocalyptic catastrophe.
Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
12:07
When you only have fossils, how do you know if a dinosaur is female or male?
Animals Are Older Than We Thought
11:57
What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old?
Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins
9:41
Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea
8:42
Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
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