Overview

Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

Genres

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Cast

Episodes

E1
E1 · 10m

How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side

10 min
E2
E2 · 10m

Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)

10 min
E3
E3 · 10m

How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs

10 min
E4
E4 · 10m

How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again

10 min
E5
E5 · 10m

How Horses Went From Food To Friends

10 min
E6
E6 · 10m

Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)

10 min
E7
E7 · 1m

Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts

1 min
E8
E8 · 1m

Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts

1 min
E9
E9 · 1m

Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts

1 min
E10
E10 · 1m

Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts

1 min
E11
E11 · 1m

Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts

1 min
E12
E12 · 1m

A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts

1 min
E13
E13 · 10m

When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands

10 min
E14
E14 · 1m

Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts

1 min
E15
E15 · 1m

Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts

1 min
E16
E16 · 10m

The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal

10 min
E17
E17 · 1m

The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts

1 min
E18
E18 · 10m

The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last

10 min
E19
E19 · 1m

Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts

1 min
E20
E20 · 1m

After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts

1 min
E21
E21 · 1m

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts

1 min
E22
E22 · 1m

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

1 min
E23
E23 · 1m

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts

1 min
E24
E24 · 8m

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

8 min
E25
E25 · 1m

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts

1 min
E26
E26 · 8m

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

8 min
E27
E27 · 10m

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

10 min
E28
E28 · 1m

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

1 min
E29
E29 · 1m

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts

1 min
E30
E30 · 1m

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts

1 min
E31
E31 · 10m

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

10 min
The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
E32 · 9m

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

9 min
E33
E33 · 8m

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

8 min
E34
E34 · 1m

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts

1 min
E35
E35 · 1m

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

1 min
E36
E36 · 1m

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

1 min
E37
E37 · 1m

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts

1 min
E38
E38 · 1m

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts

1 min
E39
E39 · 8m

How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)

8 min
E40
E40 · 11m

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

11 min
Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
E41 · 10m

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

10 min
E42
E42 · 1m

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts

1 min
E43
E43 · 1m

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts

1 min
E44
E44 · 1m

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts

1 min
When Giant Millipedes Reigned
E45 · 8m

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

8 min
How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
E46 · 14m

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

14 min
Why Does Caffeine Exist?
E47 · 11m

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

11 min
E48
E48 · 1m

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

1 min
E49
E49 · 1m

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts

1 min
E50
E50 · 1m

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

1 min
E51
E51 · 1m

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts

1 min
Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
E52 · 9m

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

9 min
How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
E53 · 11m

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

11 min
The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
E54 · 9m

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies

9 min
E55
E55 · 1m

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

1 min
E56
E56 · 1m

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts

1 min
E57
E57 · 1m

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts

1 min
E58
E58 · 1m

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

1 min
E59
E59 · 1m

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts

1 min
E60
E60 · 1m

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts

1 min
E61
E61 · 1m

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

1 min
E62
E62 · 1m

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

1 min
E63
E63 · 12m

Where Did Water Come From?

12 min
E64
E64 · 10m

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land

10 min
E65
E65 · 1m

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts

1 min
E66
E66 · 1m

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts

1 min
E67
E67 · 1m

Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts

1 min
E68
E68 · 1m

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts

1 min

Production

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