NaN/100 votes#1 - How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2022
Around 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.
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#2 - Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/2022
The 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.
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#3 - How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/27/2022
We 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?
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#4 - How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/2022
As revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?
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#5 - How Horses Went From Food To Friends
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/2022
Do 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.
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#6 - Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2022
Today, 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!
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#7 - Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/2022
There used to be SO MANY sharks...where did they go?
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#8 - Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2022
Dire wolves aren’t actually wolves but what they are might be even cooler.
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#9 - Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 3/4/2022
Could humans survive during the Precambrian?
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#10 - Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2022
Don’t be fooled by convergent evolution.
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#11 - Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 3/8/2022
Why do human knees suck?
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#12 - A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 3/10/2022
And it’s been reported that one of the geologists started it on purpose?
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#13 - When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 3/15/2022
The ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.
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#14 - Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 3/17/2022
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#15 - Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 3/18/2022
Would you have survived the K-Pg Impact?
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#16 - The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/22/2022
A 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.
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#17 - The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 3/25/2022
Thylacines are definitely extinct!
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#18 - The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 3/29/2022
Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.
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#19 - Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/2022
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#20 - After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/2022
The bird that evolved twice!
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#21 - Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/5/2022
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#22 - Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 4/6/2022
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#23 - An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 4/8/2022
I will pass on the parasitic mind-controlling mushroom, thanks
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#24 - How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 4/13/2022
We tend to think that evolution only goes in one direction— toward getting bigger and more advanced. But that’s not always the case. This tiny, simple animal, the Myxozoans, (yes, animal!) evolved from something bigger and more complex.
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#25 - We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 4/14/2022
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The Best Episodes of Eons Season 6
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Season 6 Ratings Summary
"How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side" is the best rated episode of "Eons" season 6. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/11/2022. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)".