Dig into the past and explore the greatest mysteries of natural history with the team behind the hit YouTube series PBS Eons. From the dawn of the dinosaurs to downtown Los Angeles, we’re covering what we know — and what we still don’t know — about the history of life on Earth.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 hours 30 minutes
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episode 10: What Happened To The Neandertals?
No one looks in the mirror today and sees a Neandertal looking back – and it’s pretty uncontroversial for us to say that Neandertals are extinct. But are they really gone?
episode 9: Who Were The Denisovans?
A discovery in a cave in the Altai Mountains reveals a mysterious branch of the human family tree: the Denisovans.
episode 8: What Did The Past Sound Like?
Using modern environments, living representatives of ancient groups, and fossil anatomy, paleontologists have attempted to reconstruct what the past sounded like.
episode 7: The Lost Human Fossils of World War II
Between 1927 and 1937, paleontologists excavated Homo erectus fossils from a site in China. And then World War II broke out and the fossils were lost.
episode 6: Why Do We Care About What Happened Millions Of Years Ago? (Mailbag Episode with Hank Green)
Hank Green joins Kallie, Michelle, and Blake for a special Q&A episode.
episode 5: The Strange Graveyard At The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry
Fossils from predatory dinosaurs outnumber those of prey species 3-to-1 at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. Why?
episode 4: The Extinct Human Species Discovered Deep Within A Cave System
Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology: a chamber filled with the bones of Homo naledi.
episode 3: What Was The First Dinosaur?
Exactly where and when dinosaurs first evolved are still open questions in paleontology; it’s hard to even say what the first dinosaur was.
episode 2: The Case of the Most Famous Fake Human Fossil
A whodunit detective story that spans more than a century - the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax.
episode 1: The Only Human In The La Brea Tar Pits
La Brea Woman is the name given to the only human ever excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits, but how did she end up there?
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