Eons
S03E20 When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
After The Great Dying, which decimated over 90 percent of ocean life and forever altered the marine ecosystem, the marine reptiles known as Ichthyosaurs emerged. This mass extinction sparked a new evolutionary competition, setting the stage for an intense struggle between predators and their prey in the transformed seas.
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When Humans Were Prey
How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
The Humans That Lived Before Us
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
When We First Made Tools
When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
When We Tamed Fire
The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
The Croc That Ran on Hooves
When We Took Over the World
The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
When the Synapsids Struck Back
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
When We Met Other Human Species
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
The Missing Link That Wasn’t
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
When Bats Took Flight
How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
When Antarctica Was Green
The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
When Hobbits Were Real
Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda