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.