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Eons•Season 6•Episode 36

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

Jun 1, 20221 min
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Sometimes modern problems require ancient, evolutionary solutions.

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Season 6 Episodes68

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E1

How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side

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E2

Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)

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E3

How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs

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E4

How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again

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E5

How Horses Went From Food To Friends

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E6

Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)

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E7

Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts

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E8

Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts

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E9

Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts

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E10

Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts

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E11

Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts

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E12

A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts

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E13

When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands

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E14

Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts

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E15

Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts

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E16

The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal

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E17

The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts

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E18

The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last

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E19

Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts

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E20

After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts

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E21

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts

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E22

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

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E23

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts

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E24

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

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E25

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts

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E26

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

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E27

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

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E28

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

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E29

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts

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E30

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts

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E31

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion stillE32

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

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E33

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

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E34

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts

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E35

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

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E36Now viewing

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

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E37

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts

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E38

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts

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E39

How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)

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E40

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not stillE41

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

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E42

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts

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E43

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts

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E44

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts

When Giant Millipedes Reigned stillE45

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles stillE46

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

Why Does Caffeine Exist? stillE47

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

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E48

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

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E49

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts

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E50

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

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E51

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? stillE52

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked stillE53

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies stillE54

The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies

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E55

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

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E56

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts

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E57

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts

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E58

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

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E59

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts

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E60

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts

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E61

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

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E62

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

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E63

Where Did Water Come From?

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E64

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land

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E65

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts

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E66

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts

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E67

Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts

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E68

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts

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Kallie Moore

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Blake de Pastino

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Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

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Episode Summary

"Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts" is episode 36 of Eons season 6. It aired on June 1, 2022.