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)

15hr 2min

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

Thumbnail for "Will We Survive The Future? (with John Green!)".

Humans have become a force of nature, but will we survive ourselves?

March 18, 20251hr 12min142.45 MB

Thumbnail for "Which Evolutionary Niche Does Humankind Occupy? (Mailbag Episode!)".

The Eons hosts answer your questions about deep time.

March 4, 202552min 56sec76.25 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?".

In the Early Pleistocene Epoch, other upright-walking hominins roamed the Earth. Could you survive living with other hominin species?

February 18, 20251hr 12min103.64 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?".

In the Late Miocene Epoch the Mediterranean Sea was blocked from the Atlantic Ocean and became a desert. Could you survive in that salty, desolate landscape?

February 4, 20251hr 4min61.26 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The K-Pg Extinction?".

Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth?

January 21, 202559min 3sec56.7 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive On Hateg Island?".

Could you survive the Late Cretaceous on Tiny-Dino Island?

January 7, 202554min 18sec52.14 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The End-Triassic?".

The aftermath of the Great Dying resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures and ended with another catastrophic extinction event.

December 10, 202455min 3sec99.38 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The Great Dying?".

Could you survive the volcanic event that wiped out most terrestrial and marine life at the end of the Permian Period?

November 26, 202455min 41sec53.47 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The Carboniferous?".

The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects and welcomed the first fully terrestrial vertebrates. Could you survive?

November 12, 202454min 23sec91.07 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The End-Ordovician Extinction?".

The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - could you survive its aftermath?

October 29, 202450min 45sec70.86 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The Cambrian Explosion?".

In a strange world before plants made their way onto land… could you survive?

October 15, 202443min 50sec42.09 MB

Thumbnail for "Could You Survive The Devonian Period? (with Hank Green!)".

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

October 1, 202455min 10sec98.72 MB

Thumbnail for "Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time".

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

September 26, 20241min 30sec3.29 MB

Thumbnail for "The Eons Podcast is returning!".

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

Thumbnail for "Who Were The Denisovans?".

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

Thumbnail for "What Did The Past Sound Like?".

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

Thumbnail for "The Lost Human Fossils of World War II".

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 Only Human In The La Brea Tar Pits".

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

Thumbnail for "Introducing Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time".

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

March 8, 202247sec772.67 kB

The Case of the Most Famous Fake Human Fossil

March 28, 202219min 22sec

This episode is a mystery in the most classic literary sense of the word. It’s a whodunit detective story that spans more than a century - the saga of the Piltdown Man Hoax. From a gravel pit in Sussex, we follow the faked fossils through history, to what’s now the Natural History Museum in London, where scientists are using new technologies to try to unravel the identity of the fraudster, and explore how this hoax impacted the study of human origins.

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