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How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey

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Find out how consciousness is generated in the human brain - and discover the evidence suggesting some animals are also sentient.Read Nicholas's book 'Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness' here: https://geni.us/eCGsWatch the Q&A here: https://www.you
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ASSASSIN'S CREED HAYSTACK MACAROONS - NERDY NUMMIES

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Today I made Haystack Macaroon Cookies inspired by Assassin's Creed! Let me know down below what other videos you would like to see! *Order The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook here: http://www.NerdyNummiesCookbook.com FOLLOW ME HERE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.
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How to Draw Ezio | Assasin's Creed (Step by Step Drawing Tutorial)

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http://www.youtube.com/user/cartooning4kids Good morning everyone! Today I'll be showing you How to Draw Ezio Auditore Da Firenze from Assassin's Creed. Grab your ink and paper and lets get started! New lessons posted 7 days a week so be sure to SUBSCRIBE
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TESTING my Grappling Gun - Built IRL

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I hope I've got you HOOKED on this series! See the making-of videos here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMF8JftKd__PAFNXvYrNqqrP0JVF5a4IP You've seen grappling guns in Just Cause, Assassin's Creed, Batman, Overwatch, Titanfall, and so many more... no
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What Happens to You if You Upload Your Mind to a Computer?

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Why fake punches in movies look real

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Punching in movies, explained by someone getting punched repeatedly.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Movie fight scenes at their best are spectacular, visceral, and impactful. Films like Creed, John Wi
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Cell Meiosis: Crash Course Biology #13

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Hank gets down to the nitty gritty about meiosis, the special type of cell division that is necessary for sexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dftba.com/product/1av/CrashCourse-Biology-The-Compl
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How Did Beethoven Hear Music?

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In this episode I discuss Ludwig Van Beethoven's hearing loss and demonstrate how music may have sounded to his ears and in his mind towards the end of his life. BEATO EAR TRAINING → https://beatoeartraining.com THE BEATO CLUB → https://bit.ly/3
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How To Build A Better City

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How They Did It - Fast Food in Ancient Rome DOCUMENTARY

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We explore the world of Fast Food in ancient Roman! Support the channel and download Rise of Kingdoms for free: https://patron.me/InvictaROK and use the bonus code ROKVIKINGS for in-game rewards. You can also join the promotional event here: https://bit.l
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$250,000 for a High School Science Student

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The story of three impressive high school science projects. Can you guess which student won $250,000 in the #RegeneronSTS? Applications open June 1: http://bit.ly/2HkLXT1 This video was sponsored by Regeneron. The Science Talent Search was founded and pro
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When a Billion Years Disappeared

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In some places, the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about 1.2 billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earths history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent, out-of-control glaciers, and maybe the diversification of
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How the Egg Came First

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The story of the egg spans millions of years, from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to todays mammals, including the platypus, and of course birds. Like chickens? Were here to tell you: The egg came first.Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi f
A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow the
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The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs

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Because of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits, theyre sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though youve never met one of these animals, the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the
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When Bats Took Flight

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Bats pretty much appear in the fossil record as recognizable, full-on, flying bats. And they show up on all of the continents, except Antarctica, around the same time. So where did bats come from? And which of the many weird features that bats have, showe
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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time

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The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world. Than
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The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

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It arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller, but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or not, it actually became so big that it probably got close to what scientists think might be the actual upper limit for a lan
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How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World

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Support us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/eonsThey have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the
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Evolutions great mystery - Michael Corballis

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Learn how to identify, develop, and share your best ideas with TED Masterclass: http://bit.ly/tedmasterclass --What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing whats in our minds: stories, opinions, questions,
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How (and Why) to Make a Pill Out of Poop

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The latest clinical trials for poop pills that can fight a gut infection failed. But that's no reason to flush this research down the toilet. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumbl
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The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs

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Get access to our quarterly livestream! http://patreon.com/eonsIn 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for whats known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a to
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How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings

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When pterosaurs first took flight, you could say that it marked the beginning of the end for the winged reptiles. Because, strangely enough, the power of flight -- and the changes that it led to -- may have ultimately led to their downfall.Thanks to Ceri
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The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda

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To discover more go about the LEGO Ideas Tree House set go tohttps://www.lego.com/en-us/product/tree-house-21318?CMP=SOC-PBSEons21318How does a bear -- which is a member of the order Carnivora -- evolve into an herbivore? Despite how it looks, nothing abo
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When We Took Over the World

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Check out Monstrum! https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas, by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during thee short window
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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

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Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki one of the most influential mathematicians of all time who never actually existed.--When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathem
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What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? - Prosanta Chakrabarty

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Dig into the science of how ancestry DNA tests work, their accuracy, and why tracing ancestry is so complicated. --Two sisters take the same DNA test. The results show that one sister is 10% French, the other 0%. Both sisters share the same two parents, a
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How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)

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Over 600 million years ago, sheets of ice coated our planet on both land and sea. How did this happen? And most importantly for us, why did the planet eventually thaw again? The evidence for Snowball Earth is written on every continent today.Thanks to Jul
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"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

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Dive into Lewis Carrolls epic nonsense poem, Jabberwocky from his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There."--As Alice wanders through the dreamscape of Looking-Glass Land in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice F
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When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming

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For decades, scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas, and trying to figure out if something like it could happen again. And it turns out that what caused this event is the subject of a heated debate.Thanks to these wonderful paleoarti
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The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god - Kay Almere Read

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Discover the myth of how the weak and pimply Aztec god Nanahuatl sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun and created a new world. -- Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world. There had already
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How Humans Lost Their Fur

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Were the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature, and ultimately, it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.Thank
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The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

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From end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull, no feet, almost nothing that could
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The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief

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Check out Serving Up Science! https://youtube.com/PBSFoodPaleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were origina
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Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci

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Where does quantum information go when it enters a black hole? Investigate the theories of the black hole information paradox. --Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel modern science: the black hole information paradox. E
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How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)

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A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start?And how did humans help cats take over the world?Big thank
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When the Sahara Was Green

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Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTcThe climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And were not talking about just a few years of extra rain. Were talking about a climate that w
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When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar

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Our new pin! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pinJust a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place, and how did they help s
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Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac

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Uncover the history of the witch hunts that swept through Europe and the American colonies from the 15th century until the 18th century.--In the German town of Nrdlingen in 1593, innkeeper Maria Hll found herself accused of witchcraft. She was arrested fo
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Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem - Kenny Coogan

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Explore the essential role vultures play in cleaning our ecosystems and why their conservation is key to a healthy planet.--In the African grasslands, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath. The animals corpse threatens to infect the
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When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

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All told, the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live, especially in winter. And yet, the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered there. So how were they able to survive in this harsh environment?Thanks to Nathan E. Roger
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When the Rainforests Collapsed

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Check out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrkThe Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it werent for that time when the rainforests colla
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Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff

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Dig into the science of how cotton transforms from seed to fiber, and how these cotton fibers are used to make everything from fabrics, to currency, and fishing nets.--Centuries ago, the Inca developed ingenuous suits of armor that could protect warriors
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How South America Made the Marsupials

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Throughout the Cenozoic Era -- the era were in now -- marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents. Thanks to Darin Crof
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The rise and fall of historys first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio

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Discover historys first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the worlds first cities and created the first writing system.--Historys first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones fo
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The magical, mathematical fictions of Jorge Luis Borges - Ilan Stavans

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Dive into the mind-bending works of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, whose work pioneered the literary style magical realism.--What would it be like to have a limitless memory? Can the meaning of life be found in an infinite library? Is time a labyri
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Why should you read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy? - Laura Wright

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Dig into Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things, and follow the story of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by societys Love Laws. --Set in a small town in India, The God of Small Things revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are sepa
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How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

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Check out Bizarre Beasts! https://youtu.be/DtufV5JZLW4At more than 2 meters long, Aegirocassis was not only the biggest radiodont ever, but it also may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician. This bizarre marine giant may have only been poss
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Why should you read Lord of the Flies by William Golding? - Jill Dash

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Explore William Goldings timeless satire, Lord of the Flies, which follows a group of shipwrecked boys as they descend into anarchy. --After witnessing the atrocities of his fellow man in World War II, William Golding was losing his faith in humanity. Lat
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How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

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Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/B6QeZ07FaggBeneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had ex
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When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

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Thank you for The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more click http://ow.ly/DIED30qpmFaToday, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for millions of years, and s
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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

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Our DNA holds evidence of a huge, ancient pandemic, one that touched many different species, spanned the globe, and lasted for more than 15 million years.The paper we discuss throughout the episode:Diehl, W., Patel, N., Halm, K. and Johnson, W., 2016. Tra
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How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

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The rise and fall of ancient walruses, and how modern ones got their tusks, is a story that spans almost 20 million years.And while there are parts of the story that were still trying to figure out, it looks like tusks didnt have anything to do with how o
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How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends

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Were still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated? Where did this happen? And what did the process look like, in terms
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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

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Help out Eons and take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyFor some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again.What is it about the crabs form that makes it so evolutio
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Ethical dilemma: The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

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Whats the best way to handle a crisis in business? Dig into how different strategies can work when faced with an ethical dilemma.--You founded a company that manufactures meatless burgers that are sold in stores worldwide. But youve recently received awfu
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When Lizards Took Over the World

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Check out Overview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOajuolHWI Lizards are incredibly widespread and diverse but it took them a long time to get to where they are now. Because they used to face some pretty stiff competition from a group of lizard look-al
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When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas

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The marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary arms race between predator and prey.Thank you to these paleoartists for al
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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

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Take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyOur National Fossil Day Livestream will be on Facebook and YouTube at 8 PM ET on October 14th. Here's the link to the YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/hW6XW1YgAlUWhile clubs are p
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How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Check out SciShow's video on Lake Agassiz: https://youtu.be/qMVhR26NRsk Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century t
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The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riche D. Richardson

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Learn about the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks her work with the NAACP, bus boycotts, and her lifelong fight against racial inequality.--Throughout her life, Rosa Parks repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting
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How Plants Became Carnivores

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Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMZwaopAaIDeep Looks episode on Sundews! https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants n
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How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle

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Discover the groundbreaking environmental work of Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring explores how human actions threaten the balance of nature. --In 1958, after receiving a letter describing the deaths of songbirds due to the pesticide known as DDT,
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The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls

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Check 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 Sea Monster from the Andes

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In 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton.How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz.Thank
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The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time

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Our new shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-pocket-shirt The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents. And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their
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When Hobbits Were Real

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Thanks to Raycon wireless earphones for supporting PBS. Go to http://buyraycon.com/eons to learn more.Subscribe to Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8IwwIts discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but its often called the ho
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What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

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Check out Animal Wonders and Huckleberry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONb2FVNe-7o&list=PL2Ol2gat902eYrXakcgw0FSS86fF0Ix6W&index=1Its important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers, it was semiaquatic -- it lived
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When Rodents Had Horns

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These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but theyre more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed it, they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.Samanth
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How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

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About 59 million years ago, the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. Its only been in the past few years that weve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature, but it tur
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The myth of Jason and the Argonauts - Iseult Gillespie

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Download a free audiobook version of "Circe" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-edCheck out our full book recommendation: https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/circe--Hercules, the strong
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The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

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The adventure continues! Episode 3: Ethic and Hedge must sabotage the furnace-bots to get to the first artifact. Can they find a way out? --This is episode 3 of our animated series Think Like A Coder. This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and h
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves

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Our Pocket Shirt!: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons/products/eons-pocket-shirt In the Eocene Epoch, there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh, its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws, its
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How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

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Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmosIn the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the worl
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The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie

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Dive into the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting tanuki, as the raccoon-like creature rewards a traveling salesman for his kindness.--On the dusty roads of a small village, a traveling salesman was having difficulty selling his wares. As he wandered the
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The Genes We Lost Along the Way

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Our DNA holds thousands of dead genes and weve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is already clear: were not just defined by the genes that weve gained over the course of our evolution, but also by the genes that weve lost along the w
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The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years

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Theres one kind of herpesvirus thats specific to one species of primate, and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tree when the primate split off from its own tree. But of course, humans are a special kind of primate.Here are the two studies w
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When Antarctica Was Green

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Help Eons out and fill out this survey! https://www.pbsresearch.org/c/r/Eons_YTvideoBefore the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. Andit turns out that a lot of what we rec
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The First and Last North American Primates

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How 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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The Reign of the Hell Ants

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This ancient species had the same six legs and segmented body that wed recognize from an ant today. But it also had a huge, scythe-like jaw and a horn coming out of its head. This bizarre predator belonged to a group known as hell ants. But theyre gone no
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Did Raptorex Really Exist?

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Paleontologists have been studying and drawing totally different conclusions about the fossil LH PV18 for almost a decade. Is it just one of many specimens of a theropod called Tarbosaurus bataar
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The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

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Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians.Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrati
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When Insects First Flew

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Insects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly, and, arguably, they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on, and arguing about, how and when insect wings first came about. Special thanks
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Can We Get DNA From Fossils?

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In 1993, scientists cracked open a piece of amber, took out the body of an ancient weevil, and sampled its DNA. Or, at least, so we thought. It took another few decades of research, and a lot of take-backs, before scientists could figure out how we could
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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

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You 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 Sharks Swam the Great Plains

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Check out Origin of Everything: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB8h9jD2Mlxx96ZFnGDSJw If you’ve ever been to, or lived in, or even flown over the central swath of North America, then you’ve seen the remnants of what was a uniquely fascinating environme
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The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

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Learn 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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How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)

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The PBSDS Annual Audience Survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey The ancestors of modern horses became so successful that they spread all over the world, to Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. But in their native range of North America, they’ll vani
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When Camels Roamed North America

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Camels are famous for adaptations that have allowed them to flourish where most other large mammals would perish. But their story begins over 40 million years ago in North America, and in an environment you’d never expect: a rainforest. Special thanks t
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How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

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One 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 Two People We're All Related To

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Check out Two Cents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8w_A8p8P1HWI3k6PR5Z6w Due to an odd quirk of genetics and some unique evolutionary circumstances, two humans who lived at different times in the distant past managed to pass on a very small fraction
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Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct

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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, 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 History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained

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Learn more about Hack the Moon at https://wehackthemoon.comCheck out Reactionss Summer of Space video on the Northern Lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_LPFOa-zsThroughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in syn
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When Birds Had Teeth

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Check out ReInventors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZRoStdiqWxauQT2RGW1Lg Experts are still arguing over whether Archaeopteryx was a true bird, or a paravian dinosaur, or some other kind of dino. But regardless of what side you’re on, how did this f
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The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"

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Figuring out what this creatures face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this weird animal can help us shine a light on at least one way for ecosystems to bounce back from even the worst mass extinction.Thanks to Ceri
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When Giant Amphibians Reigned

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for 210 million years. And calling them ‘diverse’ would be putting it mildly. Yet in the end, two major threats would push them to extinc
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The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)

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You can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://g.co/sciencejournal In order to understand where hearts came from, we have to go back to the earliest common ancestor of everything that has a heart. It took hundreds of millions of years, and coun
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How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees

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The 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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How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)

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Watch the Deep Time Hall livestream here:https://www.facebook.com/EonsPBS/videos/424570291712824You can set a reminder on that post to be notified when it goes live!Dont forget to check out When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time: https://www.pbs.org/tp
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When Birds Stopped Flying

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Support 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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A Million Dollars vs A Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip

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There are lots of ways to compare a million to a billion, but most of them use volume. And I think that's a mistake, because volume just isn't something the human brain is great at. So instead, here's the difference between a million and a billion, in a m
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The Missing Link That Wasn't

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The myth of the Missing Link--the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human--is persistent. But the reality is that there is no missing link in our lineage, because thats not how evolution wor
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The Humans That Lived Before Us

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As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer
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When Apes Conquered Europe

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Check 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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How Blood Evolved (Many Times)

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Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years, the way in which blood does its job has changed over and over again. As a result, we animals have our familiar red blood. But also blue blood.
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Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

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Our new sticker is available here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons And check out Tacos of Texas!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh_qdzak59m68-i4M441Rkr5j8c_mQ-en Purgatorius, a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform, might’ve been one of
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The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

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Check out America from Scratch: https://www.youtube.com/americafromscratch In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully pr
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The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

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You can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://g.co/sciencejournal The mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they
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When We First Walked

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Try 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 We First Made Tools

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons The tools made by our human ancestors may not seem like much when you compare them to the screen you’re looking at right now but their creation represents a pivotal moment in the origin of technol
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When We Tamed Fire

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Our new shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-pocket-shirt The Best-Of Nature League: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZftFO1i4jNijeKInnCZXTYg9l3HVlbXl The ability to make and use fire has fundamentally changed the arc of our evolution. The
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When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

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Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/eons The best evidence we have suggests that, while Caviomorpha originated in South America, they came from ancestors in Africa, over 40 million years ago. So how did they get there? Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the
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How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

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Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs,
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When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

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Try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/eons or text eons to 500500! Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Over time, they developed a number of adaptations--from crushing claws to flatten
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When Humans Were Prey

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Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for the adaptations that allowed us to become so successful. Thanks to Julio La
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When Fish Wore Armor

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Check out Hot Mess: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw 420 million years ago, some fish were more medieval. They wore armor, sometimes made of big plates, and sometimes made of interlocking scales. But that armor may actually have se

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