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A Brief History Of Life: Rise Of The Humans
547 views / 0 likes - addedWith the non-avian dinosaurs extinct, it was time for mammals to take over. Finally, in the tiniest sliver of the history of life, humans emerge. A Brief History of Life Part 1: https://youtu.be/7HiFxKK2yjU Part 2: https://youtu.be/kBUNR10wvhw Part 3: htt
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MAMMAL March Madness!
632 views / 0 likes - addedThis month, I've been following Mammal March Madness. Here's the basic idea: a team of evolutionary biologists pick a bunch of animals to enter a tournament, and then imagine who would win each match-up based on SCIENCE. I thought it made sense for this f
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Arnold VS Megalodon Shark
2,204 views / 9 likes - addedCan Arnold survive being eaten by a giant Megalodon shark, the most powerful creature of the sea? Watch and find out. Megalodon, meaning "big tooth," is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 2.6 million years ago, during the Early Mio
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Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew
629 views / 0 likes - addedIn the late 1800s, paleontologists in Nebraska found huge coils of hardened sand stuck deep in the earth. Local ranchers called them Devil's Corkscrews and scientists called them Daemonelix. It was clear these corkscrews were created by some form of life,
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From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
595 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out our other journeys through geologic time here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi6K9w_UbfFSFIpEU9VMavTM5MIbOAiW5 After taking you on a journey through geologic time, we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that y
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How the Chalicothere Split In Two
500 views / 1 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Two extinct relatives of horses and rhinos are closely related to each other but have strikingly different body plans. How did two of the same kind of animal, living in the same place, end up look
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How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
575 views / 0 likes - addedOne of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone. Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fos
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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
659 views / 0 likes - addedYou can go to https://wix.com/go/eons to get started on your website! A huge and diverse subfamily of dogs, the bone-crushers patrolled North America for more than thirty million years, before they disappeared in the not-too-distant past. So what happened
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When We First Walked
445 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Fossilized footprints have proved that human ancestors were already striding across the landscape 3.6 million years ago. But who started them on that path? What species pioneered this style of loc
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When Birds Stopped Flying
514 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/eons Ratites have spread to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. And there are fossils of Ratites in Europe, Asia, and North America too. That’s a lot of ground to cover for birds that can’t fly. So
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How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
560 views / 0 likes - addedThe story of sloths is one of astounding ecological variability, with some foraging in the seas, others living underground, and others still hiding from predators in towering cliffs. So why are their only living relatives in the trees? Thanks to Ceri Thom
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When Apes Conquered Europe
479 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Origin of Everything: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB8h9jD2Mlxx96ZFnGDSJw Today, our closest evolutionary relatives, the apes, live only in small pockets of Africa and Asia. But back in the Miocene epoch, apes occupied all of Europe. Why ar
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Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
1,337 views / 10 likes - addedFor more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans’ apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So, what happened to the largest shark in history? Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us
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The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
534 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in th
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The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
486 views / 0 likes - addedLearn more about ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/eonsAll of todays big cat species evolved less than 11 million years ago and yet their evolutionary history remains an almost total mystery. But scientists have recently discovered a major clue about
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The First and Last North American Primates
381 views / 0 likes - addedHow To Vote in Every State: https://youtube.com/HowToVoteInEveryStateEarly primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours? Thank you to these paleoartists for
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Earth was once a planet of the apesand they set the stage for human evolution
619 views / 0 likes - addedMore than ten million years ago, the world was brimming with a wide variety of apes. Scientists studying the ones that are still alive today can learn a lot about human evolutionbut they miss out on many clues that can only be found from the apes that wen
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Sea Monsters Of The Past | SciShow Kids
158 views / 1 likes - addedTeachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Squeaks is so excited to learn all about ancient sea monsters, like the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs! We'll also take a look at a fish wearing armor
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