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Eons

When India Was An Island

Season 7 Episode 1 | 11m 04s

We need to talk about the biggest break-up of all-time: the break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, and how, ultimately, when India smashed back into Asia, it traded one form of evolutionary isolation for another.

Aired: 08/05/24
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Episode: S6 E21 | 10:21
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Episode: S6 E18 | 10:18
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Episode: S6 E17 | 9:34
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Episode: S7 E3 | 11:55
Watch • 9:45
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Episode: S7 E2 | 9:45
Watch • 10:21
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Did you know volcanoes created the Atlantic Ocean that we know today?
Episode: S6 E21 | 10:21
Watch • 8:04
Eons
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Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…
Episode: S6 E20 | 8:04
Watch • 10:46
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Maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind"?
Episode: S6 E19 | 10:46
Watch • 10:18
Eons
The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis
How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place?
Episode: S6 E18 | 10:18
Watch • 9:34
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We’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
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Watch • 9:11
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How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race
For some, the rise of venomous elapid snakes was an almost apocalyptic catastrophe.
Episode: S6 E15 | 9:11
Watch • 12:07
Eons
Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?
When you only have fossils, how do you know if a dinosaur is female or male?
Episode: S6 E14 | 12:07