Eons
S6 · E2 — Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
S6:E2 · Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
68 episodes in this season
How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
10 min
Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
How Horses Went From Food To Friends
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
1 min
Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
8 min
We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
When Ants Domesticated Fungi
The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
9 min
Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
What is the most successful human species? #shorts
Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
11 min
Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
When Giant Millipedes Reigned
How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
14 min
Why Does Caffeine Exist?
This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
Where Did Water Come From?
12 min
Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts
