Eons (Mùa 6)

How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-01-11

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us.

Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-01-19

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: The Snake Detection Hypothesis proposes that the ability to quickly spot and avoid snakes is deeply embedded in primates, including us - an evolutionary consequence of the danger snakes have posed to us over millions of years.

How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-01-27

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: We often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren’t the only two options. So why would we expect dinosaurs to have only been carnivores or herbivores, with the occasional omnivore thrown in the mix?

How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-02-08

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: As revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?

How Horses Went From Food To Friends 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-02-16

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Do our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these questions has been tricky, as we’ve needed to bring together evidence from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA…Because, as it turns out, the history of humans and horses has been a pretty wild ride.

Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-02-23

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Today, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their “hands” and five on their “feet.” But no species of vertebrates have more than five digits, let alone eight!

Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-02

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: There used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go?

Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-03

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Dire wolves aren’t actually wolves but what they are might be even cooler.

Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-04

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Could humans survive during the Precambrian?

Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-07

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Don’t be fooled by convergent evolution.

Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-08

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Why do human knees suck?

A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-10

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: And it’s been reported that one of the geologists started it on purpose?

When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-15

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: The ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.

Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-17

Thời lượng: 1 min

Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-18

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Would you have survived the K-Pg Impact?

The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-22

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: A truly enormous ichthyosaur around the size of a modern sperm whale, reached its size within just a few million years of taking to the water - a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.

The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-25

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Thylacines are definitely extinct!

The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-29

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.

Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-03-31

Thời lượng: 1 min

After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-04

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: The bird that evolved twice!

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-05

Thời lượng: 1 min

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-06

Thời lượng: 1 min

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-08

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: I will pass on the parasitic mind-controlling mushroom, thanks

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-13

Thời lượng: 8 min

Tổng quan: We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s not always the case. This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, (yes, animal!) evolved from something bigger and more complex.

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-14

Thời lượng: 1 min

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-20

Thời lượng: 8 min

Tổng quan: While sour taste's original purpose was to warn vertebrates of danger, in a few animal groups, including us, its role has reversed. The taste of danger became something it was dangerous for us to avoid.

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-04-27

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Only a handful of Denisovan fossils have been identified. In the absence of actual body fossils, it’s impossible for us to reconstruct their morphology, right?

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-02

Thời lượng: 1 min

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-03

Thời lượng: 1 min

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-04

Thời lượng: 1 min

When Ants Domesticated Fungi 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-10

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: While we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming?

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-17

Thời lượng: 9 min

Tổng quan: A mysterious, large feline roamed Eurasia during the last ice age. Its fossils have been found across the continent, and it’s been the subject of ancient artwork. So what exactly were these big cats?

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record? 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-26

Thời lượng: 8 min

Tổng quan: Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-27

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: There’s something weird going on at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in what’s now Utah.

What is the most successful human species? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-05-31

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Does Homo erectus beat out Homo sapiens?

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-01

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Sometimes modern problems require ancient, evolutionary solutions.

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-02

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: What was this ancient pup’s last meal?

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-03

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: The newest oldest saber-toothed mammal

How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?) 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-08

Thời lượng: 8 min

Tổng quan: In the quest to understand how evolution basically built the woolly mammoth, we may have found the blueprints for building them ourselves.

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-15

Thời lượng: 11 min

Tổng quan: Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. We don’t even know if it’s a trace fossil, or the organism itself. So… what could it be?

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-06-29

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: In 2003, microbiologists made a huge discovery. One that would force us to reconsider a lot of what we thought we knew about the evolution of microbial life: giant viruses.

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-06

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Microbiology goes macro with a new giant bacterium!

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-07

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Spinosaurus had dense bones!

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-08

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Guemesia: a new no-arm dino

When Giant Millipedes Reigned 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-13

Thời lượng: 8 min

Tổng quan: This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big??

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-21

Thời lượng: 14 min

Tổng quan: Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible - and even striking - if you know where and how to look for it.

Why Does Caffeine Exist? 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-07-28

Thời lượng: 11 min

Tổng quan: Today, billions of people around the world start their day with caffeine. But how and why did the ability to produce this molecule independently evolve in multiple, distantly-related lineages of flowering plants, again and again?

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-03

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: One of the biggest earthquakes humans ever experienced happened around 3800 years ago in what's now northern Chile.

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-03

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: We have no idea where they were all this time, or who stole and returned them and why.

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-05

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Flesh-eating bees exist!

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-05

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Archaeologists have discovered an ancient art workshop

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-11

Thời lượng: 9 min

Tổng quan: There is one - and only one - group of mammals that doesn’t have alpha-gal: the catarrhine primates, which are the monkeys of Africa and Asia, the apes, and us.

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-18

Thời lượng: 11 min

Tổng quan: Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-23

Thời lượng: 9 min

Tổng quan: This fungus was actually manipulating ants’ movements, forcing them to do something they’d never ordinarily do, something strange, yet specific…

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-08-31

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Did you know that fossils can get sick? – Specifically with Pyrite Disease

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-08

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Disaster in the great plains!

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-09

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: 80 years ago, a bunch of fossils of ancient humans disappeared.

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-13

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Congrats! You just found a wombat burrow. And the cubes are its poop.

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-14

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Wisdom teeth can be such a pain

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-16

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Paranthropus got chomped by a leopard

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-17

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: We didn’t always wear clothes!

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-22

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Ancient sperm whale heads belonged on every shark-cuterie board

Where Did Water Come From? 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-09-27

Thời lượng: 12 min

Tổng quan: Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all super low on water – so where did ours come from and why do we have so much of it? We think our water came from a few unlikely sources: meteorites, space dust, and even the sun.

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-10-04

Thời lượng: 10 min

Tổng quan: Around the time that some of our fishapod relatives were crawling out of the water, others were turning around and diving right back in.

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-10-05

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: We might’ve been wrong about how this saber-toothed cat looked

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-10-07

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Sometimes evolution is completely predictable.

Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-10-10

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Shanidar 1 got by with a little help from his friends

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts 0.0

Ngày phát sóng: 2022-10-14

Thời lượng: 1 min

Tổng quan: Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you.