Season 2022
20 episodes · Jan 11, 2022
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- S6E1
How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
Jan 11, 202210mAround 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us.
- S6E2
Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
Jan 19, 202210mThe Snake Detection Hypothesis proposes that the ability to quickly spot and avoid snakes is deeply embedded in primates, including us - an evolutionary consequence of the danger snakes have posed to us over millions of years.
- S6E3
How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
Jan 27, 202210mWe often think of dinosaurs as either preying on other dinos or mammals, or as plant-eaters -- but in ecosystems today, those aren’t the only two options. So why would we expect dinosaurs to have only been carnivores or herbivores, with the occasional omnivore thrown in the mix?
- S6E4
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
Feb 8, 202210mAs revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?
- S6E5
How Horses Went From Food To Friends
Feb 16, 202210mDo our modern horses descend from just one domesticated population, or did it happen many times, in many places? Answering these questions has been tricky, as we’ve needed to bring together evidence from art, archaeology, and ancient DNA…Because, as it turns out, the history of humans and horses has been a pretty wild ride.
- S6E6
Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
Feb 23, 202210mToday, all mammals from humans to bats have five fingers or fewer. Yes, even whales, whose finger bones are hidden in their fins. Birds have four or fewer and amphibians get the best of both worlds, often having four digits on their “hands” and five on their “feet.” But no species of vertebrates have more than five digits, let alone eight!
- S6E7
Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
Mar 2, 20221mThere used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go?
- S6E8
Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
Mar 3, 20221mDire wolves aren’t actually wolves but what they are might be even cooler.
- S6E9
Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
Mar 4, 20221mCould humans survive during the Precambrian?
- S6E10
Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
Mar 7, 20221mDon’t be fooled by convergent evolution.
- S6E11
Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
Mar 8, 20221mWhy do human knees suck?
- S6E12
A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
Mar 10, 20221mAnd it’s been reported that one of the geologists started it on purpose?
- S6E13
When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
Mar 15, 202210mThe ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.
- S6E15
Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
Mar 18, 20221mWould you have survived the K-Pg Impact?
- S6E16
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
Mar 22, 202210mA truly enormous ichthyosaur around the size of a modern sperm whale, reached its size within just a few million years of taking to the water - a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.
- S6E17
The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
Mar 25, 20221mThylacines are definitely extinct!
- S6E18
The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Mar 29, 202210mHyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.
- S6E20
After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
Apr 4, 20221mThe bird that evolved twice!