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Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time

PBS

Dig into the past and explore the greatest mysteries of natural history with the team behind the hit YouTube series PBS Eons. From the dawn of the dinosaurs to downtown Los Angeles, we’re covering what we know — and what we still don’t know — about the history of life on Earth.

PBS (2022)

Dig into the past and explore the greatest mysteries of natural history with the team behind the hit YouTube series PBS Eons. From the dawn of the dinosaurs to downtown Los Angeles, we’re covering what we know — and what we still don’t know — about the history of life on Earth.

PBS (2022)
3hr 31min
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
Thumbnail for "Introducing Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time".
Dig into the past and explore the greatest mysteries of natural history.