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Where Did Water Come From?
Season 5
Episode 1
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.
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9:41
Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
8:42
Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
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.
7:50
From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
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.