Season 3

How To Survive the Little Ice Age
How did the Nunalleq village manage to survive and prosper during the Little Ice Age?
How To Survive the Little Ice Age

This small change in our appearance has helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.
How Humans Lost Their Fur

The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
It arose from rhino ancestors, but Paraceratherium took a different evolutionary path.
The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful?
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
We’ve only started to get to the bottom of how clubs worked and how it developed.
How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

The horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.
When Rodents Had Horns

How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
Aegirocassis may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician.
How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record
How did Thrinaxodon and Broomistega become entombed together?
The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record

How We Figured Out Fermentation
Fermented foods opened up a whole new nutritional landscape for us.
How We Figured Out Fermentation

The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

The Story of the Dino Stampede
To try to solve the puzzle of Lark Quarry, experts have turned to paleoichnology.
The Story of the Dino Stampede

The Sea Monster from the Andes
How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?
The Sea Monster from the Andes

How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
What if the rock art drawings of strange animals really existed?
How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth
These animals truly ruled the Earth, becoming both abundant and diverse.
When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals
The key to solving the puzzle of Precambrian life was a tiny bit of fossilized fat.
How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years
The two viruses that we’ve had for millions of years.
The Two Viruses That We’ve Had For Millions of Years

How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
The arrival of plants on land would eventually help cause a massive extinction event.
How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
Cerro Ballena has over 40 skeletons of marine mammals from the Late Miocene Epoch.