Eons

Eons (2017)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Hank Green
  • First Air Date: 2017-06-26
  • Last Air Date: 2022-10-14
  • Total Seasons: 6
  • Total Episodes: 246
  • Status: Returning Series
  • Episode Runtime: 10 min.
  • Production Company: PBS Digital Studios
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Network: PBS Digital Studios, YouTube

Summary

Join hosts Hank Green, 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. The evolutionary history of mammals including humans and other modern species is explored with these amazing paleontology experts.

  • Keywords: paleontology, paleontologist, dinosaur, fossil, cenozoic, paleozoic, mesozoic
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    Eons Seasons

    Season 0

    First Air Date: 2017-06-22
    6 Episodes

    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2017-06-26
    24 Episodes

    Season 2

    First Air Date: 2018-01-15
    45 Episodes

    Season 3

    First Air Date: 2019-01-08
    39 Episodes

    Season 4

    First Air Date: 2020-01-09
    39 Episodes

    Season 5

    First Air Date: 2021-01-13
    31 Episodes

    Season 6

    First Air Date: 2022-01-11
    68 Episodes

    Eons Episodes

    Title Air Date Duration
    Season 2017Episode 1The Trouble With Trilobites min
    Season 2017Episode 2When Did the First Flower Bloom? min
    Season 2017Episode 3The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures min
    Season 2017Episode 4Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers min
    Season 2017Episode 5What Colors Were Dinosaurs? min
    Season 2017Episode 6The Story of Saberteeth min
    Season 2017Episode 7That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything min
    Season 2017Episode 8The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew min
    Season 2017Episode 9Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor min
    Season 2017Episode 10The Extinction That Never Happened min
    Season 2017Episode 11The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws min
    Season 2017Episode 12The Age of Giant Insects min
    Season 2017Episode 13History's Most Powerful Plants min
    Season 2017Episode 14How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge? min
    Season 2017Episode 15When The Earth Was Purple min
    Season 2017Episode 16'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing min
    Season 2017Episode 17When Whales Walked min
    Season 2017Episode 18An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs min
    Season 2017Episode 19A Brief History of Geologic Time min
    Season 2017Episode 20The Search for the Earliest Life min
    Season 2017Episode 21The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers min
    Season 2017Episode 22The Last Time the Globe Warmed min
    Season 2017Episode 23What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape? min
    Season 2017Episode 24When Giant Fungi Ruled min
    Season 2018Episode 1How Two Microbes Changed History min
    Season 2018Episode 2The Time Terror Birds Invaded min
    Season 2018Episode 3Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew min
    Season 2018Episode 4The Great Snake Debate min
    Season 2018Episode 5The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents min
    Season 2018Episode 6From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying min
    Season 2018Episode 7How Sex Became a Thing min
    Season 2018Episode 8The Other Explosion You Should Know About min
    Season 2018Episode 9How the Turtle Got Its Shell min
    Season 2018Episode 10What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope min
    Season 2018Episode 11The Most Useful Fossils in the World min
    Season 2018Episode 12Inside the Dinosaur Library min
    Season 2018Episode 13What Was the Ancestor of Everything? min
    Season 2018Episode 14How the Squid Lost Its Shell min
    Season 2018Episode 15How the Chalicothere Split In Two min
    Season 2018Episode 16The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts min
    Season 2018Episode 17The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus min
    Season 2018Episode 18From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans min
    Season 2018Episode 19That Time It Rained for Two Million Years min
    Season 2018Episode 20Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest min
    Season 2018Episode 21Where Did Viruses Come From? min
    Season 2018Episode 22When Fish First Breathed Air min
    Season 2018Episode 23How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms min
    Season 2018Episode 24FAQs From Our First Year min
    Season 2018Episode 25When Insects First Flew min
    Season 2018Episode 26The Mystery of the Eocene's Lethal Lake min
    Season 2018Episode 27When Fish Wore Armor min
    Season 2018Episode 28When Birds Had Teeth min
    Season 2018Episode 29How Horses Took Over North America (Twice) min
    Season 2018Episode 30How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic's Coolest Fossils min
    Season 2018Episode 31The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs min
    Season 2018Episode 32Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves min
    Season 2018Episode 33When We First Walked min
    Season 2018Episode 34Did Raptorex Really Exist? min
    Season 2018Episode 35Can We Get DNA From Fossils? min
    Season 2018Episode 36When Giant Amphibians Reigned min
    Season 2018Episode 37Your Place in the Primate Family Tree min
    Season 2018Episode 38The Two People We're All Related To min
    Season 2018Episode 39When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean min
    Season 2018Episode 40When Birds Stopped Flying min
    Season 2018Episode 41When Camels Roamed North America min
    Season 2018Episode 42How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees min
    Season 2018Episode 43When Sharks Swam the Great Plains min
    Season 2018Episode 44When Apes Conquered Europe min
    Season 2018Episode 45Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct min
    Season 2019Episode 1When Humans Were Prey min
    Season 2019Episode 2How Blood Evolved (Many Times) min
    Season 2019Episode 3The Humans That Lived Before Us min
    Season 2019Episode 4The Island of Shrinking Mammoths min
    Season 2019Episode 5The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story) min
    Season 2019Episode 6How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World min
    Season 2019Episode 7The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls min
    Season 2019Episode 8The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time min
    Season 2019Episode 9When We First Made Tools min
    Season 2019Episode 10When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas min
    Season 2019Episode 11When We Tamed Fire min
    Season 2019Episode 12The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time min
    Season 2019Episode 13The Croc That Ran on Hooves min
    Season 2019Episode 14When We Took Over the World min
    Season 2019Episode 15The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats min
    Season 2019Episode 16The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained min
    Season 2019Episode 17The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs" min
    Season 2019Episode 18How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out) min
    Season 2019Episode 19When the Synapsids Struck Back min
    Season 2019Episode 20When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas min
    Season 2019Episode 21When We Met Other Human Species min
    Season 2019Episode 22How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice) min
    Season 2019Episode 23How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World min
    Season 2019Episode 24When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia min
    Season 2019Episode 25Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? min
    Season 2019Episode 26The Missing Link That Wasn't min
    Season 2019Episode 27The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs min
    Season 2019Episode 28When Bats Took Flight min
    Season 2019Episode 29How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings min
    Season 2019Episode 30When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar min
    Season 2019Episode 31When Antarctica Was Green min
    Season 2019Episode 32The (Ovi)Raptor That Paleontologists Got Wrong min
    Season 2019Episode 33When Hobbits Were Real min
    Season 2019Episode 34Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils? min
    Season 2019Episode 35How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) min
    Season 2019Episode 36When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa min
    Season 2019Episode 37Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game min
    Season 2019Episode 38The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs min
    Season 2019Episode 39The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda min
    Season 2020Episode 1That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared min
    Season 2020Episode 2The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity min
    Season 2020Episode 3The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body min
    Season 2020Episode 4How South America Made the Marsupials min
    Season 2020Episode 5A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck min
    Season 2020Episode 6When the Rainforests Collapsed min
    Season 2020Episode 7How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake min
    Season 2020Episode 8When the Sahara Was Green min
    Season 2020Episode 9When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea min
    Season 2020Episode 10How the Egg Came First min
    Season 2020Episode 11How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends min
    Season 2020Episode 12When a Billion Years Disappeared min
    Season 2020Episode 13The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors min
    Season 2020Episode 14How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales min
    Season 2020Episode 15How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction min
    Season 2020Episode 16The Two Viruses That We've Had For Millions of Years min
    Season 2020Episode 17How We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals min
    Season 2020Episode 18When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth min
    Season 2020Episode 19The World Before Plate Tectonics min
    Season 2020Episode 20When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic min
    Season 2020Episode 21How the Walrus Got Its Tusks min
    Season 2020Episode 22The Story of the Dino Stampede min
    Season 2020Episode 23The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived min
    Season 2020Episode 24The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea min
    Season 2020Episode 25How We Figured Out Fermentation min
    Season 2020Episode 26The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record min
    Season 2020Episode 27How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna min
    Season 2020Episode 28The Sea Monster from the Andes min
    Season 2020Episode 29When Rodents Had Horns min
    Season 2020Episode 30The First and Last North American Primates min
    Season 2020Episode 31How Plants Became Carnivores min
    Season 2020Episode 32How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs min
    Season 2020Episode 33Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs? min
    Season 2020Episode 34How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas min
    Season 2020Episode 35The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth min
    Season 2020Episode 36How Humans Lost Their Fur min
    Season 2020Episode 37When Lizards Took Over the World min
    Season 2020Episode 38When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming min
    Season 2020Episode 39The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces" min
    Season 2021Episode 1What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver? min
    Season 2021Episode 2The Reign of the Hell Ants min
    Season 2021Episode 3The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years min
    Season 2021Episode 4When We First Talked min
    Season 2021Episode 5The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles min
    Season 2021Episode 6The Genes We Lost Along the Way min
    Season 2021Episode 7Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative min
    Season 2021Episode 8How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld min
    Season 2021Episode 9How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed min
    Season 2021Episode 10How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) min
    Season 2021Episode 11How To Survive the Little Ice Age min
    Season 2021Episode 12When Crocs Thrived in the Seas min
    Season 2021Episode 13When Trees Took Over the World min
    Season 2021Episode 14How Weasels Got Skinny min
    Season 2021Episode 15Where Are All The Squid Fossils? min
    Season 2021Episode 16Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death? min
    Season 2021Episode 17The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals min
    Season 2021Episode 18The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths min
    Season 2021Episode 19Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs? min
    Season 2021Episode 20How the Starfish Got Its Arms min
    Season 2021Episode 21The Creature That Stumped Darwin min
    Season 2021Episode 22How Pollination Got Going Twice min
    Season 2021Episode 23How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate min
    Season 2021Episode 24How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon min
    Season 2021Episode 25When Mammals Only Went Out At Night min
    Season 2021Episode 26How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean min
    Season 2021Episode 27How Dinosaurs Coupled Up min
    Season 2021Episode 28When It Was Too Hot for Leaves min
    Season 2021Episode 29Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals min
    Season 2021Episode 30The Fossil Record In Your Mouth min
    Season 2021Episode 31When Pterosaurs Walked min
    Season 2022Episode 1How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned to the Dark Side min
    Season 2022Episode 2Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) min
    Season 2022Episode 3How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs min
    Season 2022Episode 4How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again min
    Season 2022Episode 5How Horses Went From Food To Friends min
    Season 2022Episode 6Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) min
    Season 2022Episode 7When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands min
    Season 2022Episode 8The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal min
    Season 2022Episode 9The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last min
    Season 2022Episode 10How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple min
    Season 2022Episode 11Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste min
    Season 2022Episode 12The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body min
    Season 2022Episode 13When Ants Domesticated Fungi min
    Season 2022Episode 14The Curious Case of the Cave Lion min
    Season 2022Episode 15Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record? min
    Season 2022Episode 16How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?) min
    Season 2022Episode 17Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years min
    Season 2022Episode 18Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not min
    Season 2022Episode 19When Giant Millipedes Reigned min
    Season 2022Episode 20How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles min
    Season 2022Episode 21Why Does Caffeine Exist? min
    Season 2022Episode 22Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? min
    Season 2022Episode 23How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked min
    Season 2022Episode 24The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies min
    Season 2022Episode 25Where Did Water Come From? min
    Season 2022Episode 26Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land min
    Season 2022Episode 27Darwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose min
    Season 2022Episode 28Are We All Actually Archaea? min
    Season 2022Episode 29How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses min
    Season 2022Episode 30We Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought min
    Season 2022Episode 31Thylacoleo Is The Missing Australian Apex Predator min
    Season 2022Episode 32How Did Lucy Live and Die? min
    Season 2023Episode 1These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy min
    Season 2023Episode 2When Ancient People Changed Their Own DNA min
    Season 2023Episode 3The Neandertal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity min
    Season 2023Episode 4These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible min
    Season 2023Episode 5The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs min
    Season 2023Episode 6How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains min
    Season 2023Episode 7That Time the American West Blew Up min
    Season 2023Episode 8Does Our "Junk" DNA Make Us Human? min
    Season 2023Episode 9Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Appeared min
    Season 2023Episode 10The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction min
    Season 2023Episode 11How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction min
    Season 2023Episode 12It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal min
    Season 2023Episode 13The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart min
    Season 2023Episode 14A Natural History of Mars min
    Season 2023Episode 15We've Had The Giraffe's Neck All Wrong min
    Season 2023Episode 16We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem min
    Season 2023Episode 17Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe? min
    Season 2023Episode 18That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen min
    Season 2023Episode 19This Is An Ant World, We're Just Living In It min
    Season 2023Episode 20Are Giant Animals Inevitable? min
    Season 2023Episode 21When Did We Stop Being Naked? min
    Season 2023Episode 22The Secret Extinctions Of The Silurian Period min
    Season 2023Episode 23Beans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies min
    Season 2023Episode 24Why Only Earth Has Fire min
    Season 2024Episode 1How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea min
    Season 2024Episode 2Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins min
    Season 2024Episode 3Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought min
    Season 2024Episode 4Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur? min
    Season 2024Episode 5How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race min
    Season 2024Episode 6When Did We Start Practicing Medicine? min
    Season 2024Episode 7What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now? min
    Season 2024Episode 8The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis min
    Season 2024Episode 9There's No Single Cradle of Humankind min
    Season 2024Episode 10How Sponges Beat The First Mass Extinction min
    Season 2024Episode 11When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent min
    Season 2024Episode 12When India Was An Island min
    Season 2024Episode 13The Mystery of South America's False Horses min
    Season 2024Episode 14What Was The First Beverage? min
    Season 2024Episode 15How The Elephant Got Its Trunk min
    Season 2024Episode 16When Earth "Ate" A Planet min
    Season 2024Episode 17How the Himalayas Changed the World min
    Season 2024Episode 18The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot min
    Season 2024Episode 19What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals? min
    Season 2024Episode 20How Animals Got Butts min
    Season 2024Episode 21When the Amazon Flowed Backwards min
    Season 2024Episode 22When Neandertals Became Apex Predators min
    Season 2025Episode 1Did Asteroids Spark Life? min
    Season 2025Episode 2The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii min
    Season 2025Episode 3The Strange Primates That Thrived In The Mountains min
    Season 2025Episode 4Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles? min
    Season 2025Episode 5The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth min
    Season 2025Episode 6The Arms Race That Made Insects Take Flight min
    • Kallie Moore

      as Self
    • Blake de Pastino

      as Self
    • Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

      as Self

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