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Eons

When India Was An Island

We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, and how, ultimately, when India smashed back into Asia, it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another.

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The Fiery Rise of Flowering Plants
10:45
For flowering plants to take over, they first helped burn the old world—and then put the fires out.
When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
11:37
Ancient weeds mimicked crops, tricking farmers into domesticating friends—and enemies—by mistake.
How Brawn Led to Brains
12:14
Brains and brawn aren’t opposites—they’ve been linked far longer than we might think.
When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age
10:27
Understanding the Isthmus of Panama.
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
9:35
Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction.
How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
10:43
Where the space rock came from 66 million years ago that crashed and killed the dinosaurs.
Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
8:19
Fish evolved terrestrial traits to...stay fish?
Do Chins Make Us Human?
12:07
We're the only ones with chins, and we don't know why.
The Golden Age of Sharks
12:40
Why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during the Golden Age?
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
12:12
What was Charles Darwin really obsessed with?
Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?
12:29
Did you know ocean basins are reincarnated?
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?
8:36
How did such a large predator survive?
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