Eons

Eons

Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take the viewer on a journey through the history of life on Earth. They explore the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

A Wooly Rhino is grazing on the slope of a mountain.

Still image from: Eons: The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"

A group of four legged terrestrial creatures. Caption: Synapsids.

A pair of Ichthyosaurs hunting prey in the sea.

Still image from: Eons: When We Met Other Human Species

Still image from: Eons: How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)

Still image from: Eons: How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World

A giant deer roams a grassland.

An illustration depicts the dinosaur, Coelophysis, with new born Coelophysis in between its beak.

A painting depicts scientists comparing Piltdown Man's remains to other species. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward are seen standing together.

An illustration depicts a pair of dinosaurs fighting each other.

An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.

An illustration depicts a pair of reptile like dinosaurs running in a desert. Image credit: Ceri Thomas.

An illustration depicts an extinct animal, the Giant Lemur.

An illustration depicts the earth of 50 million years ago, with a supercontinent Laurasia. Caption, Paleographic animation by C R Scotese.

An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.

A skull from the fossils of Homo floresiensis, and a rough sketch of the limbs of the fossil remains are presented.

The sculpture, of a dragon sprawled, at the steps of Kinh Thien palace. Caption: Remains of Kinh Thien Palace.

A cat.

An illustration of a hyaenodont. Caption: Illustration by Alan Turner and Maurico Anton.

An illustration of a male Woolly mammoth.

An illustration of a Daphoenus Demilo.

A panda eating bamboo shoots.

A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.

An illustration depicts an old shepherd, wearing clothes made from animal leather, sitting on a rock.

A cartoon shows the skeletal structure of a giant dinosaur.

Two rat like creatures are seen fighting. Caption: Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, copyright Darin Croft. From horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: The fascinating fossil mammals of South America.

A sketch of a dinosaur, and a man is seen standing below. Caption: Argentinosaurus, 35 meters approximately equals 114 feet. 70 metric tons approximately equals 154,000 pounds.

A painting of a flooded forest, and insects are seen crawling on the tree surface.

A cartoon shows a large python wrapping its body and squeezing a small crocodile.

A group of Hippos and Giraffes are grazing in a forest.

A large group of penguins.

A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.

Still image from: Eons: When a Billion Years Disappeared

Still image from: Eons: The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors

Still image from: Eons: How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

Still image from: Eons: How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

Still image from: Eons: The Two Viruses That We’ve Had for Millions of Years

Still image from: Eons: How We Identified One of Earth’s Earliest Animals

Still image from: Eons: When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth

Still image from: Eons: The World Before Plate Tectonics

Still image from: Eons: When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

Still image from: Eons: How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

Still image from: Eons: The Story of the Dino Stampede

Still image from: Eons: The Biggest Frog That Ever Lived

Still image from: Eons: The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea

Still image from: Eons: How We Figured Out Fermentation

Still image from: Eons: The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record

Still image from: Eons: How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

Still image from: Eons: The Sea Monster From the Andes

Still image from: Eons: When Rodents Had Horns

Still image from: Eons: The First and Last North American Primates

Still image from: Eons: How Plants Became Carnivores

Still image from: Eons: How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

Still image from: Eons: Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

Still image from: Eons: How Plankton Created a Bizarre Giant of the Seas

Still image from: Eons: The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

Still image from: Eons: How Humans Lost Their Fur

A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.