Pbs eons

For more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans' apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, ...

In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there's an ancient line that is both real and…not real. PBS Member Stations rely ...

In the Arctic, enormous releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, threaten the climate. Colossal explosions shake a remote ...

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the ...

A 9500-year-old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the ...

For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again.What is it about the ...

Shanidar 1 got by with a little help from his friends Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios.

Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well, there was a time and not too long ago when the ...

Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, ...

No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate relatives.

There used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go? Produced by Complexly for PBS. If you'd like to support the channel, ...

We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we weren't always alone. 100000 years ago, Eurasia was ...

Spinosaurus had dense bones! If you'd like to support the channel, head over to patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool ...

Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult ...

There are fossils of viruses, of sorts, preserved in the DNA of the hosts that they've infected. Including you. This molecular fossil ...

We're still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond ...

How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear? It would take decades and more than 1000 research ...

After taking you on a journey through geologic time, we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that you ...

The illustration of Paraceratherium used in the thumbnail is by Dmitry Bogdanov! Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital ...

Chernobyl frogs are changing color! Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios If you'd like to support the channel, head over ...

Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago.

We might've been wrong about how this saber-toothed cat looked Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios References: ...

Due to an odd quirk of genetics and some unique evolutionary circumstances, two humans who lived at different times in the ...

A huge and diverse subfamily of dogs, the bone-crushers patrolled North America for more than thirty million years, before they ...

By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life's history.

The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they're not closely related at all.

The ancestors of modern, squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times, their shell was their ...

Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years, the way in which ...

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As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more ...

Adamantium, bolognium, dilithium. Element Zero, Kryptonite. Mythril, Netherite, Orichalcum, Unobtanium. We love the idea of ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off Tuesday night for their first and possibly only debate ...

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Before the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America.

The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we're not talking about just a few years of extra ...

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The story of sloths is one of astounding ecological variability, with some foraging in the seas, others living underground, and ...

The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth's history.

The evolution of our ability to speak is its own epic saga and it's worth pausing to appreciate that. It's taken several million years to ...