Season 5 episodes2021-01-13

Season 2021

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.

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Episodes

Season 5

Episode 1

What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

10m

Episode 2

The Reign of the Hell Ants

10m

Episode 3

The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

10m

Episode 4

When We First Talked

10m

Episode 5

The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles

10m

Season 2021

Season 5

What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

The Reign of the Hell Ants

The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

When We First Talked

The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles

The Genes We Lost Along the Way

Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative

How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

How To Survive the Little Ice Age

When Crocs Thrived in the Seas

When Trees Took Over the World

How Weasels Got Skinny

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?

The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

How the Starfish Got Its Arms

The Creature That Stumped Darwin

How Pollination Got Going Twice

How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate

How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

When Mammals Only Went Out At Night

How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean

How Dinosaurs Coupled Up

When It Was Too Hot for Leaves

Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals

The Fossil Record In Your Mouth

When Pterosaurs Walked