Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino guide viewers on an enlightening exploration of Earth's biological history in Eons. The journey spans from the Archaean Eon, marking life's inception, through the Mesozoic Era—famous for its dinosaurs—culminating at the conclusion of the last Ice Age. The hosts delve into the fascinating evolutionary paths of mammals, including humans and contemporary species, sharing insights from their expertise in paleontology. Each episode offers a captivating glimpse into the intricate tapestry of life’s development over eons.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Season 1
24 ep
1
The Trouble With Trilobites
2
When Did the First Flower Bloom?
3
The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures
4
Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers
5
What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
6
The Story of Saberteeth
7
That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
8
The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew
9
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
10
The Extinction That Never Happened
11
The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws
12
The Age of Giant Insects
13
History's Most Powerful Plants
14
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
15
When The Earth Was Purple
16
'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing
17
When Whales Walked
18
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
19
A Brief History of Geologic Time
20
The Search for the Earliest Life
21
The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers
22
The Last Time the Globe Warmed
23
What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?
24
When Giant Fungi Ruled
Season 2
Season 2
45 ep
1
How Two Microbes Changed History
2
The Time Terror Birds Invaded
3
Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew
4
The Great Snake Debate
5
The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents
6
From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
7
How Sex Became a Thing
8
The Other Explosion You Should Know About
9
How the Turtle Got Its Shell
10
What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
11
The Most Useful Fossils in the World
12
Inside the Dinosaur Library
13
What Was the Ancestor of Everything?
14
How the Squid Lost Its Shell
15
How the Chalicothere Split In Two
16
The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
17
The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
18
From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
19
That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
20
Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
21
Where Did Viruses Come From?
22
When Fish First Breathed Air
23
How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
24
FAQs From Our First Year
25
When Insects First Flew
26
The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake
27
When Fish Wore Armor
28
When Birds Had Teeth
29
How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
30
How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
31
The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
32
Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
33
When We First Walked
34
Did Raptorex Really Exist?
35
Can We Get DNA From Fossils?
36
When Giant Amphibians Reigned
37
Your Place in the Primate Family Tree
38
The Two People We're All Related To
39
When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
40
When Birds Stopped Flying
41
When Camels Roamed North America
42
How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
43
When Sharks Swam the Great Plains
44
When Apes Conquered Europe
45
Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
Season 3
Season 3
39 ep
1
When Humans Were Prey
2
How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
3
The Humans That Lived Before Us
4
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
5
The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
6
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
7
The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
8
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
9
When We First Made Tools
10
When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
11
When We Tamed Fire
12
The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
13
The Croc That Ran on Hooves
14
When We Took Over the World
15
The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
16
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
17
The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
18
How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
19
When the Synapsids Struck Back
20
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
21
When We Met Other Human Species
22
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
23
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
24
When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
25
Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
26
The Missing Link That Wasn’t
27
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
28
When Bats Took Flight
29
How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
30
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
31
When Antarctica Was Green
32
The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
33
When Hobbits Were Real
34
Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils?
35
How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
36
When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa
37
Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game
38
The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
39
The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
Season 4
Season 4
39 ep
1
That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
2
The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
3
The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
4
How South America Made the Marsupials
5
A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
6
When the Rainforests Collapsed
7
How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
8
When the Sahara Was Green
9
When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
10
How the Egg Came First
11
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
12
When a Billion Years Disappeared
13
The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors
14
How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
15
How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
16
The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years
17
How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals
18
When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
19
The World Before Plate Tectonics
20
When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
21
How the Walrus Got Its Tusks
22
The Story of the Dino Stampede
23
The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
24
The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea
25
How We Figured Out Fermentation
26
The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
27
How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
28
The Sea Monster from the Andes
29
When Rodents Had Horns
30
The First and Last North American Primates
31
How Plants Became Carnivores
32
How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
33
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
34
How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
35
The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
36
How Humans Lost Their Fur
37
When Lizards Took Over the World
38
When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
39
The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
Season 5
Season 5
31 ep
1
What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
2
The Reign of the Hell Ants
3
The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
4
When We First Talked
5
The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles
6
The Genes We Lost Along the Way
7
Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
8
How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld
9
How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
10
How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
11
How To Survive the Little Ice Age
12
When Crocs Thrived in the Seas
13
When Trees Took Over the World
14
How Weasels Got Skinny
15
Where Are All The Squid Fossils?
16
Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
17
The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
18
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
19
Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
20
How the Starfish Got Its Arms
21
The Creature That Stumped Darwin
22
How Pollination Got Going Twice
23
How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate
24
How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
25
When Mammals Only Went Out At Night
26
How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean
27
How Dinosaurs Coupled Up
28
When It Was Too Hot for Leaves
29
Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals
30
The Fossil Record In Your Mouth
31
When Pterosaurs Walked
Season 6
Season 6
68 ep
1
How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
2
Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
3
How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
4
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
5
How Horses Went From Food To Friends
6
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
7
Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
8
Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
9
Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
10
Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
11
Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
12
A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
13
When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
14
Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
15
Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
16
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
17
The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
18
The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
19
Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
20
After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
21
Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
22
Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
23
An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
24
How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
25
We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
26
Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
27
The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
28
Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
29
Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
30
An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
31
When Ants Domesticated Fungi
32
The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
33
Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
34
Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
35
What is the most successful human species? #shorts
36
Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
37
This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
38
What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
39
How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
40
Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
41
Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
42
This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
43
Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
44
There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
45
When Giant Millipedes Reigned
46
How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
47
Why Does Caffeine Exist?
48
This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
49
Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
50
You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
51
This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
52
Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
53
How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
54
The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
55
Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
56
A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
57
A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
58
Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
59
Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
60
Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
61
When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
62
Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
63
Where Did Water Come From?
64
Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
65
Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
66
Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
67
Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
68
Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts
