High Mammals Smell Worse

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The Lagoon That Puzzled Paleontologists for 250 Years

From PBS Eons. Use code EONS10 for 10% off → https://bit.ly/4trQPKL. The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization: survival & rebuilding strategies revealed. At the Solnhofen formation in Germany, over 500 fossils of 15 pterosaur species have been found. But it might be hiding a dark secret, one that’s been massively distorting our view…

These Lizards Beat Extinction

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Your Teeth Went From the Outside In

From PBS Eons. If you’ve ever experienced dental pain, you’ve probably wondered why our teeth would evolve to function like an oversensitive alarm system. To find the answer, we have to go way back to when teeth first evolved, as part of the armored skin of ancient fish. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers…

A New Species Just Dropped

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130 Million Years Ago, the World Caught Fire

From PBS Eons. It seems that for flowering plants to take over the world, first they may have had to help burn the old one away…and then put those fires out. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly…

Solve This Sabertooth Mystery

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When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us

From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons Ancient weeds began mimicking early crops again and again over the course of the agricultural revolution, as ancient farmers made similar mistakes in different places at different times.And it turns out, some of our closest plant friends today actually started out as uninvited…

Ancient human found!

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How Brawn Led to Brains

From PBS Eons. While we often think of brains as some kind of triumph over brawn, it turns out that those two things might not be mutually exclusive, and in fact, they’ve been linked for far longer than we might imagine. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station,…

This Wasp Isn’t a Wasp

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When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age

From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons On land, the Isthmus of Panama kicked off possibly the greatest natural experiment in the history of life on Earth. In the water, this narrow strip of land did something completely different: it divided. And that division would have a much bigger effect…

We Found T-Rex’s Lost Ancestor!

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What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green

From PBS Eons. To try everything Brilliant has to offer, visit https://brilliant.org/eons It made the front page of the New York Times. Ancient DNA over 2 million years old, retrieved from the frozen dirt of Greenland. It reached back further in time than many scientists used to think was even theoretically possible. And it contained…

Stone Age or Bone Age

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