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The Genes We Lost Along the Way

The Genes We Lost Along the Way

Season 3 Episode 36
12:01
How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

Season 3 Episode 38
9:42
When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

Season 3 Episode 41
9:08
How To Survive the Little Ice Age

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

Season 3 Episode 42
10:00
When Trees Took Over the World

When Trees Took Over the World

Season 3 Episode 43
7:28
How Weasels Got Skinny

How Weasels Got Skinny

Season 3 Episode 44
9:01
Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Season 3 Episode 45
7:21
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When We First Talked

Season 3 Episode 34

The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it’s worth pausing to appreciate that. It’s taken several million years to get to this moment where we can tell you about how it took several million years for us to get here.

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How Animals Got Butts
12:10
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?
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12:28
Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance.
The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot
9:19
Where are all the east coast dinosaurs?
Where Did the Moon Come From?
10:50
Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine.
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What was the first ever drink?
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"?
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