Back to Show
Eons
When the Sahara Was Green
Season 2
Episode 54
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of extra rain. We’re talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made themselves at home in the middle of the Sahara.
Sign up now for inspiring and thought-provoking media delivered straight to your inbox.
Support Provided By

9:05
Ants have been farming for 60 million years! We explore how, when and why they started.

7:56
Would it really be impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology?

7:02
Sour used to be the taste of danger. But, now its role has reversed.

6:52
This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, evolved from something bigger and more complex.

7:50
Only a few million years ago, Hyenas lived very different lives from what we know today.

8:44
A truly enormous ichthyosaur reached its size within just a few million years.

8:50
The giant pterosaur's occupied the empty Hateg Island.

9:12
We learn why all mammals today, from humans to bats, have five fingers or fewer.

6:32
With evidence from from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA, we put together horses history.

8:52
Here's why teeth would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrate.

10:21
Dinosaurs were not just carnivores or herbivores; they were occasional omnivore too.

7:53
The Snake Detection Hypothesis is deeply embedded in primates, including us.