Will We Survive The Future? (with John Green)

From PBS Eons. Just because our ancestors have made it through every major period of upheaval in the Earth’s history so far doesn’t mean that our survival through future changes is guaranteed. Humans have become a force of nature, but will we survive ourselves? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support…

The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth

From PBS Eons. It’s Patron Appreciation Month at Eons, and you’re invited! To celebrate, join us for a livestream on March 27. Become a member at Patreon.com/eons at the Paleozoic level or above by March 31 and receive the very first Eons trading card! Plus, show your love for Eons and the Permian Era with…

Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?

From PBS Eons. Today, we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet, but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch, other upright-walking, tool-wielding, large-brained hominins roamed the Earth. In a time when behavior might be the key tool to survival, could you? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To…

How Mountains Make Evolution Weird

From PBS Eons. Mountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making evolution weird. And they would eventually reveal something even stranger about a group of mammals even closer to home: primates. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your…

The Great Gerbil Herd

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Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?

From PBS Eons. In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth’s crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty, desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your…

Were Neandertals morning people?

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The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii

From PBS Eons. Since the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northeastern China, most seemingly posed in perfect rest. This has prompted comparisons to a famous archeological site where behavior is similarly well preserved: the site of Pompeii, a town crystallized by volcanic eruption almost…

Sponge World

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Did Asteroids Spark Life?

From PBS Eons. We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth. ***** 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 for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping…

Could You Survive On Hateg Island?

From PBS Eons. There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the hunting ground of a terrifying apex predator unlike any other: a giant pterosaur. Could you manage to survive on this island? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support…