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You're Living On An Ant Planet
New ReviewHow did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didn’t achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just been riding the wave of a totally different evolutionary explosion.
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Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
New ReviewThe journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one that paleontologists have been asking for more than a century: from an evolutionary perspective,...
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The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering
New ReviewWhat graptolites tell us is a story of incredible changes in the ocean, of periods where the oceans became poisonous and suffocating before eventually clearing up again. They unlock extinctions and recoveries that scientists didn't see....
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What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?
New ReviewWe spend a lot of time here on Eons looking backwards into deep time, visiting ancient chapters of our planet’s history. But this time, we’re taking a look towards the deep future. After all, the story is far from over.
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The Hazy Evolutionary History of Cannabis
New ReviewHow 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 why does it get us high?
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No Single Cradle of Humankind
New ReviewIt would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of humankind," and realize that maybe they’d been asking the wrong question all along.
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The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World
New ReviewResearchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…a time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World.
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How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
New ReviewMountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making evolution weird. And they would eventually reveal something even stranger about a group of mammals even...
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Darwin's Unexpected Final Obsession
New ReviewAfter having solved the small matter of evolution by natural selection - becoming one of the most famous scientists in the world in the process - Charles Darwin turned his focus to a different personal obsession…
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The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs
New ReviewHow did sauropods, uniquely large land animals, actually live, with their anatomy and physiology pushed to such extremes? Well, their unprecedented gigantism came with some equally massive costs…
SciShow
Reforestation Does Not Begin With Planting Trees
New ReviewReforesting unneeded farmland could be a huge key for getting the climate crisis under control. Which is why Pat Brown, creator of the Impossible Burger, is trying to figure out the best way to do it. Hosted by: Stefan Chin (he/him)
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A Lost Human Ancestor Is Probably Under This Parking Lot
New ReviewIt's really rare to find fossils, which means that when they're lost again after someone dug them up, it really hurts. These are a few of the most famous fossils that went missing after someone found them, and what researchers can still...
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How Leeches Are Helping to Save Endangered Species
New ReviewLeeches are bloodsucking parasites, and you wouldn't think they're great at protecting other species. Yet for some conservationists, these little vampires are one of the best tools available for conserving endangered and threatened...
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Hobbits Were Real. Why Were They So Small?
New ReviewYou may have heard of the Hobbits -- no, not the Tolkien ones. Our cousins, Homo floresiensis! But have you ever wondered why this enigmatic mini species was so little? Let's talk about the decades of research into what made the hominins...
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The Birds That Eat Fire
New ReviewPlenty of animals do things that seem risky, but they clearly have a good reason for doing it. After all, they've made it this far by taking chances. But these birds really take the cake when it comes to daredevil stunts, all in the name...
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These Are The Coolest Fossils From 2024
New ReviewFrom a fancy-frilled ceratopsian to a possible new biggest snake ever and something called a giga goose, there were some pretty amazing giant fossils announced in 2024. Plus, Kallie from our sister channel Eons reminds us to give some...
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Thrill Seeking is Genetic (And Good For Humanity)
New ReviewIf you've ever watched a video of someone doing some crazy parkour daredevil stuff, you might have wondered how they're still in the gene pool. But it turns out that all that dangerous behavior may be a pretty good thing after all, and...
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Four Animals That Give Each Other Names
New ReviewHumans aren't the only ones who refer to each other by name. Several species in the animal kingdom refuse to live in anonymity. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her)
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Sometimes…Jellyfish Live on Land
New ReviewMyxozoans are so weird. They're jellyfish the size of single-celled organisms. Some of them even live on land. New weirdest animal just dropped. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)
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6 of the World’s Weirdest Trees
New ReviewToday we're talking about the weirdest trees in the world, from the psychedelic rainbow eucalyptus, to the dragon's blood tree, to the jabuticaba that grows delicious fruits on its trunk. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)
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A Fish In This Lake Evolved Into 850 Different Species
New ReviewWhen conditions are just right, one species can turn into hundreds in a short period of time. Welcome to the weird world of adaptive radiation. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock
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Where Scientists Keep the World's Most Endangered Animals
New ReviewEven when a species has officially gone extinct, there's sometimes still hope of saving it. Scientists keep insurance populations of endangered animals all over the world with the goal of one day reintroducing them to the wild. Hosted...
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Sexual & Asexual Reproduction: How Animals Do It: Crash Course Biology #47
New ReviewWhen it comes to animal reproduction, there’s no one-size-fits-all strategy. Some animals need a mate, others don’t, and for some, it depends! In this episode, we’ll learn about sexual and asexual reproduction, internal and external...
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Conservation Biology: Sixth Mass Extinction?: Crash Course Biology #10
New ReviewSome scientists believe we are in the middle of Earth’s sixth mass extinction: a big, precarious game of Jenga that involves every ecosystem on the planet. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll see how conservation biology aims...