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Eons•Season 1•Episode 24

When Giant Fungi Ruled

Dec 18, 201710 min

420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi.

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Season 1 Episodes24

The Trouble With Trilobites

When Did the First Flower Bloom?

The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures

Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

The Story of Saberteeth

That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything

The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew

Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor

The Extinction That Never Happened

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

The Age of Giant Insects

History's Most Powerful Plants

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

When The Earth Was Purple

'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

When Whales Walked

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

A Brief History of Geologic Time

The Search for the Earliest Life

The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

The Last Time the Globe Warmed

What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

When Giant Fungi Ruled

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Kallie Moore

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Blake de Pastino

Self

Hank Green

Hank Green

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Episode Summary

"When Giant Fungi Ruled" is episode 24 of Eons season 1. It aired on December 18, 2017.

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