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Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

How dino stomachs are revealing a mystery.
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What was Charles Darwin really obsessed with?
Did you know ocean basins are reincarnated?
How did such a large predator survive?
How did a relative of the red panda end up in North America?
How did the competition of spiders vs insects drive them both into the air?
Why plate tectonics don't make sense.
Why was it the mammals who triumphed?
What do mountains reveal about primates?
When you take a deeper look at Pompeii, a different story could be told about the final moments.
We may have planet-shattering asteroids...
What doomed the Neandertals?
What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards?
Did you know the evolution of the butthole was a major breakthrough in animal development?
Learn about the complicated the history of mammals and their disappearance.
Where are all the east coast dinosaurs?
Where did our moon come from? The origin is even stranger than you may imagine.
The Himalayas changed everything.
What led to the creation of the trunk?
What was the first ever drink?
How did the "false horse," Thoatherium, and its relatives survive?
We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time.
Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?
Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…
Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?
We’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
When did we start practicing medicine in its varied, complex forms?
For some, the rise of venomous elapid snakes was an almost apocalyptic catastrophe.
When you only have fossils, how do you know if a dinosaur is female or male?
What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old?
Paranthropus lived alongside our ancestors. If we are still here, why aren’t they?
Exoskeleton fragments may have allowed microbes to sail the ocean and change the world.
Fire only exists only on Earth because fire can’t exist without life.
Turns out bats didn’t give us butterflies and we should be thanking bees and beans.
Graptolites show us how unpredictable the Silurian period really could be.
How can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes?
From an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
How did ants take over the world?
This is how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period.
What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland?
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How did sauropods, uniquely large land animals, actually live, with their anatomy and physiology pus
Take a journey through the history of life on Earth.