Eons: Surviving Deep Time

PBS

Season 2 of the Eons podcast will be a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked in the comments section of our YouTube videos: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past?

PBS (2022)

4hr 28min

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La Brea Woman is the name given to the only human ever excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits, but how did she end up there?

March 14, 202216min 52sec16.21 MB

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Our distant relative figured out how to survive 380 million years ago, can you?

October 1, 202455min 10sec98.72 MB

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How long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past?

September 26, 20241min 30sec3.29 MB

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September 21, 202422sec528.09 kB

Thumbnail for "What Happened To The Neandertals?".

No one looks in the mirror today and sees a Neandertal looking back – and it’s pretty uncontroversial for us to say that Neandertals are extinct. But are they really gone?

July 25, 202217min 16sec16.61 MB

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A discovery in a cave in the Altai Mountains reveals a mysterious branch of the human family tree: the Denisovans.

July 11, 202220min 44sec19.93 MB

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Using modern environments, living representatives of ancient groups, and fossil anatomy, paleontologists have attempted to reconstruct what the past sounded like.

June 27, 202217min 13sec16.55 MB

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Between 1927 and 1937, paleontologists excavated Homo erectus fossils from a site in China. And then World War II broke out and the fossils were lost.

June 13, 202218min 11sec17.48 MB

Thumbnail for "Why Do We Care About What Happened Millions Of Years Ago? (Mailbag Episode with Hank Green)".

Hank Green joins Kallie, Michelle, and Blake for a special Q&A episode.

May 31, 202240min 3sec57.68 MB

Thumbnail for "The Strange Graveyard At The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry".

Fossils from predatory dinosaurs outnumber those of prey species 3-to-1 at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry. Why?

May 16, 202219min 5sec18.35 MB

Thumbnail for "The Extinct Human Species Discovered Deep Within A Cave System".

Deep in the Rising Star Cave system lies a mystery of paleoanthropology: a chamber filled with the bones of Homo naledi.

April 25, 202222min 21sec21.47 MB

Thumbnail for "What Was The First Dinosaur?".

Exactly where and when dinosaurs first evolved are still open questions in paleontology; it’s hard to even say what the first dinosaur was.

April 11, 202218min 57sec18.22 MB

Thumbnail for "The Case of the Most Famous Fake Human Fossil".

A whodunit detective story that spans more than a century - the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax.

March 28, 202219min 22sec18.62 MB

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Dig into the past and explore the greatest mysteries of natural history.

March 8, 202247sec772.67 kB

The Only Human In The La Brea Tar Pits

March 14, 202216min 52sec

While the famous La Brea Tar Pits are well-known for charismatic Ice Age megafauna, like sabertooth cats and dire wolves, a lesser-known discovery from the Pits is the partial skeleton of a human woman. In this episode, we walk through what the Tar Pits can tell us about the ecosystem of Los Angeles over the last 50,000 years and why La Brea Woman remains such a mystery.

Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS.