Up Next
Back to Show
Eons
What Was the Ancestor of Everything?
Season 1
Episode 37
The search for our origins go back to a single common ancestor -- one that remains shrouded in mystery. It’s the ancestor of everything we know and today scientists call it the last universal common ancestor, or LUCA.
Support Provided By
8:42
Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
10:45
Fire only exists only on Earth because fire can’t exist without life.
7:09
Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans.
8:58
Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be.
9:05
How can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes?
7:50
From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
9:14
How did ants take over the world?
9:31
This is how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period.
8:03
What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
8:10
About 6,000 years ago, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush savannah in Africa.
9:01
The giraffe's neck as made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution really works.
11:03
Another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.