NaN/100 votes#1 - When Humans Were Prey
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2019
Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for the adaptations that allowed us to become so successful.
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#2 - How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2019
Blood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years, the way in which blood does its job has changed over and over again. As a result, we animals have our familiar red blood. But also blue blood. And purple, and green, and even white.
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#3 - The Humans That Lived Before Us
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2019
As more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer some big questions about what it essentially means to be human.
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#4 - The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/2019
The mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they came to be seen as their own species. How did they get there? And why were they so small?
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#5 - The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2019
In order to understand where hearts came from, we have to go back to the earliest common ancestor of everything that has a heart. It took hundreds of millions of years, and countless different iterations of the same basic structure to lead to the heart that you have today.
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#6 - How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/2019
Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century to solve. These features turned out to be a result one of the most powerful and bizarre episodes in geologic history: this region experienced dozens of major, devastating floods over the course of more than 7,000 years.
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#7 - The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/5/2019
Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in the very strange, but very real, powers of natural selection.
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#8 - The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/12/2019
The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place in our world.
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#9 - When We First Made Tools
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 3/26/2019
The tools made by our human ancestors may not seem like much when you compare them to the screen you’re looking at right now but their creation represents a pivotal moment in the origin of technology and in the evolution of our lineage.
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#10 - When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/2019
Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Over time, they developed a number of adaptations--from crushing claws to flattened tails for swimming. And some of them adapted by getting so big that they still hold the record as the largest arthropods of all time.
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#11 - When We Tamed Fire
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 4/9/2019
The ability to make and use fire has fundamentally changed the arc of our evolution. The bodies we have today were, in many ways, shaped by that time when we first tamed fire.
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#12 - The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 4/23/2019
The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents. And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their adaptability wasn’t enough to keep them from going extinct.
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#13 - The Croc That Ran on Hooves
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 5/1/2019
In the Eocene Epoch, there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh, its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws, its toes were each capped with hooves. How did this living nightmare come to evolve?
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#14 - When We Took Over the World
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 5/7/2019
From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas, by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during thee short window of time when we took over the world.
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#15 - The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 5/16/2019
All of today’s big cat species evolved less than 11 million years ago and yet their evolutionary history remains an almost total mystery. But scientists have recently discovered a major clue about the origins of the big cats, one that could provide a whole new starting place for solving this puzzle.
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#16 - The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 5/30/2019
Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes?
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#17 - The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 6/5/2019
Despite the name, we don’t know where the so-called “hell pigs” belong in the mammalian family tree. They walked on hooves, like pigs do, but had longer legs, almost like deer. They had hunched backs, a bit like rhinos or bison. But as is often, if not always, the case, there is some evolutionary method to this anatomical madness.
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#18 - How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 6/11/2019
As a scientific concept, evolution was revolutionary when it was first introduced. With the help of all three of our hosts and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new Deep Time Hall, we’ll try to explain how evolution actually works and how we came to understand it.
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#19 - When the Synapsids Struck Back
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 6/19/2019
Synapsids were the world’s first-ever terrestrial megafauna but the vast majority of these giants were doomed to extinction. However some lived on, keeping a low profile among the dinosaurs. And now our world is the way it is because of the time when the synapsids struck back.
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#20 - When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 6/25/2019
The marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary arms race between predator and prey.
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#21 - When We Met Other Human Species
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 7/9/2019
We all belong to the only group of hominins on the planet today. But we weren’t always alone. 100,000 years ago, Eurasia was home to other hominin species, some of which we know our ancestors met, and spent some quality time with.
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#22 - How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 7/17/2019
Over 600 million years ago, sheets of ice coated our planet on both land and sea. How did this happen? And most importantly for us, why did the planet eventually thaw again? The evidence for Snowball Earth is written on every continent today.
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#23 - How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 7/30/2019
They have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the world.
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#24 - When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 8/7/2019
Megaloceros was one of the largest members of the deer family ever to walk the Earth. The archaeological record is full of evidence that our ancestors lived alongside and interacted with these giant mammals for millennia. But what happened when they did interact, when humans met this megafauna?
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#25 - Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal?
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 8/14/2019
Paleontologists have spent the better part of two decades debating whether Coelophysis ate its own kind. It turns out, the evidence that scientists have had to study in order to answer that question includes some of the strangest and grossest fossils that any expert would ever get to see.
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The Best Episodes of Eons Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"When Humans Were Prey" is the best rated episode of "Eons" season 3. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/8/2019. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "How Blood Evolved (Many Times)".