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The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs

The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs

Season 2 Episode 45
9:37
The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda

The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda

Season 2 Episode 46
8:20
That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared

Season 2 Episode 47
11:10
The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity

The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity

Season 2 Episode 48
9:09
The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

Season 2 Episode 49
12:00
How South America Made the Marsupials

How South America Made the Marsupials

Season 2 Episode 50
9:51
A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

Season 2 Episode 51
9:18
When the Rainforests Collapsed

When the Rainforests Collapsed

Season 2 Episode 52
7:40
How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

Season 2 Episode 53
7:45
When the Sahara Was Green

When the Sahara Was Green

Season 2 Episode 54
7:50
When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

Season 2 Episode 55
10:33
The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

Season 2 Episode 56
7:32
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Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)

Season 2 Episode 44

Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one of the mysteries about these charismatic megafauna: why do most remains of mammoths found in the fossil record turn out to be male?
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How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
9:35
Season 8 Episode 6
How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
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
Season 8 Episode 5
How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
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
Season 8 Episode 4
Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
Fish evolved terrestrial traits to...stay fish?
Do Chins Make Us Human?
12:07
Season 8 Episode 3
Do Chins Make Us Human?
We're the only ones with chins, and we don't know why.
The Golden Age of Sharks
12:40
Season 8 Episode 2
The Golden Age of Sharks
Why did sharks get so incredibly diverse and odd during the Golden Age?
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
12:12
Season 7 Episode 21
Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
What was Charles Darwin really obsessed with?
Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?
12:29
Season 7 Episode 20
Are All Oceans Basically Reincarnated?
Did you know ocean basins are reincarnated?
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?
8:36
Season 7 Episode 19
Could This Sperm Whale Eat The Meg?
How did such a large predator survive?
When Red Pandas Roamed North America
9:41
Season 7 Episode 18
When Red Pandas Roamed North America
How did a relative of the red panda end up in North America?
Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air
8:10
Season 7 Episode 17
Webs vs wings: The arms race of the air
How did the competition of spiders vs insects drive them both into the air?
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
12:38
Season 7 Episode 16
The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth
Why plate tectonics don't make sense.
Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?
9:59
Season 7 Episode 15
Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles?
Why was it the mammals who triumphed?
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