Eons

We spend a lot of time here on Eons looking backwards into deep time, visiting ancient chapters of our planet's history. But this ...

When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become ...

How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place? When and where did we first domesticate it? And why oh ...

Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons ...

Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for 210 million years. And calling them 'diverse' would be putting it ...

To get fire, which exists only on Earth, it took billions of years of photosynthesis - which means fire can't exist without life. And fire ...

The unexpected discovery of an entirely new domain of life was pretty huge and surprising - even if archaea do just look like ...

For some, the rise and spread of venomous elapids was just another challenge to adapt to. For others, it was a catastrophe of ...

While we think we know a lot about dinosaurs - like how they moved and what they ate - for a long time, we haven't been able to ...

This video contains images and video of snakes and spiders. It's possible Euchambersia possessed venom about 20 million years ...

There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel ...

What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution ...

Today, chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world - grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to ...

Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz. Thanks as always to Ceri Thomas for the excellent South American ...

Lizards are incredibly widespread and diverse but it took them a long time to get to where they are now. Because they used to ...

And thanks to paleontologists Caleb Brown and Donald Henderson of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, and Jakob Vinther of ...

What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? While a massive megatsunami might have ...

Plants first made their way onto land at least 470 million years ago but for their first 80 million years, leaves as we know them ...

Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Anthony Callaghan, Heathe Kyle Yeakley, ...

Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…a time when the first-ever mass extinction may ...

It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn't just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize ...

Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and ...

What graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and ...

These hyaenodonts gave the world some of its largest terrestrial, carnivorous mammals ever known. And while these behemoths ...

In this video Jay builds and paints Mortarion for his Warhammer 40k Death Guard Army! We have new videos every Monday, ...

What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never ...

Weasels have an extreme body plan that may push the boundaries of what's metabolically possible. So when and how did this ...

The myth of the Missing Link the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a ...

There were a huge number of croc-like animals that flourished during the Triassic Period. Dinosaurs had just arrived on the scene ...

The story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep ...

Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Anthony Callaghan, Anton Bryl, Jeff ...

Ratites have spread to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. And there are fossils of Ratites in Europe, Asia, and ...

During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was ...

Toxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years.