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Join hosts Hank Green, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take the viewer on a journey through the history of life on Earth. They explore the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

A Wooly Rhino is grazing on the slope of a mountain.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 23
13 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration shows an interpretation of how a hell pig would look like in the desert. The pig looks like a longer warthog with a long nose and prominent cheekbones.
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Season 2 / Ep 24
7 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of four legged terrestrial creatures. Caption: Synapsids.
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Season 2 / Ep 26
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A pair of Ichthyosaurs hunting prey in the sea.
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Season 2 / Ep 27
9 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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Man talks to us in front of a black background like he's doing an interview.
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Season 2 / Ep 28
12 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Digital graphic of the carbon cycle shows a factory producing fossil fuels that go into the air, and then into the soil, which goes into the water, and into the sediment under the water. Arrows move in a circle to show how the cycle goes on and on. Text reads, “Carbon Cycle.”
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Season 2 / Ep 29
10 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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View from space of a prehistoric earth that is mainly covered in land and slim streams of water in between the two land formations.
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Season 2 / Ep 30
10 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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A giant deer roams a grassland.
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Season 2 / Ep 31
6 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts the dinosaur, Coelophysis, with new born Coelophysis in between its beak.
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Season 2 / Ep 32
10 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A painting depicts scientists comparing Piltdown Man's remains to other species. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward are seen standing together.
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Season 2 / Ep 33
9 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration depicts a pair of dinosaurs fighting each other.
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Season 2 / Ep 34
8 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration depicts a bat flying in sky.
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Season 2 / Ep 35
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts a pair of reptile like dinosaurs running in a desert. Image credit: Ceri Thomas.
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Season 2 / Ep 36
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration depicts an extinct animal, the Giant Lemur.
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Season 2 / Ep 37
10 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration depicts the earth of 50 million years ago, with a supercontinent Laurasia. Caption, Paleographic animation by C R Scotese.
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Season 2 / Ep 38
11 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration depicts a theropod dinosaur, looking into a nest with eggs and newborn dinosaurs.
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Season 2 / Ep 39
7 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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A skull from the fossils of Homo floresiensis, and a rough sketch of the limbs of the fossil remains are presented.
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Season 2 / Ep 40
9 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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The sculpture, of a dragon sprawled, at the steps of Kinh Thien palace. Caption: Remains of Kinh Thien Palace.
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Season 2 / Ep 41
12 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A cat.
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Season 2 / Ep 42
7 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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An illustration of a hyaenodont. Caption: Illustration by Alan Turner and Maurico Anton.
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Season 2 / Ep 43
9 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration of a male Woolly mammoth.
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Season 2 / Ep 44
11 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration of a Daphoenus Demilo.
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Season 2 / Ep 45
9 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A panda eating bamboo shoots.
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Season 2 / Ep 46
8 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A geographical representation of Mediterranean sea, which is enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. Caption: M S C recreation by Aaron Micallef, Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Angelo Camerlenghi, University of Malta, Medsalt.
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Season 2 / Ep 47
11 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts an old shepherd, wearing clothes made from animal leather, sitting on a rock.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 48
9 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A cartoon shows the skeletal structure of a giant dinosaur.
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Season 2 / Ep 49
12 minutes
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two rat like creatures are seen fighting. Caption: Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski, copyright Darin Croft. From horned armadillos and rafting monkeys: The fascinating fossil mammals of South America.
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Season 2 / Ep 50
9 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A sketch of a dinosaur, and a man is seen standing below. Caption: Argentinosaurus, 35 meters approximately equals 114 feet. 70 metric tons approximately equals 154,000 pounds.
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Season 2 / Ep 51
9 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A painting of a flooded forest, and insects are seen crawling on the tree surface.
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Season 2 / Ep 52
7 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A cartoon shows a large python wrapping its body and squeezing a small crocodile.
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Season 2 / Ep 53
7 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A group of Hippos and Giraffes are grazing in a forest.
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Season 2 / Ep 54
7 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A large group of penguins.
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Season 2 / Ep 55
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A large number of eggs laid in water has a thick layer of jelly.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 1
8 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.
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Season 3 / Ep 2
9 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of how earth might have looked billions of years ago. It's mostly white and light gray with a fracture of blue down the middle along the horizontal axis.
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Season 3 / Ep 3
11 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of a crocodile peeking its head up slightly above bright green water.
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Season 3 / Ep 4
7 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Bright neon green waves crash to shore with text below that reads, "Harmful Algal Blooms."
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Season 3 / Ep 5
8 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Slow moving current passes by a grouping of rocks partially covered with moss.
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Season 3 / Ep 6
9 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man faces camera against a black background, gesturing with both hands out and forward.
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Season 3 / Ep 7
9 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Dickinsonia fossil from the Ediacaran that is symmetrical and round with rib-like segments that are radially inclined towards the wide end from a central ridge.
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Season 3 / Ep 8
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of a dinosaur skeleton depicting a creature with short front arms and a long tail that walks on its hind legs.
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Season 3 / Ep 9
7 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
View of a rocky beach and a gray sky over the water.
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Season 3 / Ep 10
9 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Herd of reindeer passes through a snowy clearing with tall trees in the distant background. Some reindeer lean down, pushing their snouts into the snow.
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Season 3 / Ep 11
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Computer rendering of a walrus perched on the shore, rearing is head back with mouth open, showing 4 long, thick teeth protruding from its gums on the top and bottom.
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Season 3 / Ep 12
7 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Sandy path with differently-shaped footprints in the sand. There's a light tan rock in the middle of the area.
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Season 3 / Ep 13
10 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Male lion roars at us.
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Season 3 / Ep 14
7 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman stands in front of a black backdrop and talks to us like she's doing an interview.
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Season 3 / Ep 15
12 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.
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Season 3 / Ep 16
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman stands in front of a black backdrop like she's doing an interview.
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Season 3 / Ep 17
8 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of ancient rock drawings, including a kangaroo, deer, and a lot of scribbles.
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Season 3 / Ep 18
9 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
South America with different colors representing different parts of the continent. The large green area that has a river drawn across it is labeled, “Amazon Biome.” The rest of the land is colored in different shades of brown.
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Season 3 / Ep 19
6 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman talks to us in front of a black background like she's doing an interview.
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Season 3 / Ep 20
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Colorful timeline labeled “Cenozoic Era” that starts at 66 MYA in light green to Present Day in light yellow. In the middle there is a dark green block labeled, “Eocene Epoch.”
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Season 3 / Ep 21
8 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Lots of Flypaper Traps with a bug stuck on one of them. Text reads, “Flypaper Traps, video courtesy of Deep Look - KQED. From their video ‘Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in A Sticky Situation.'”
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Season 3 / Ep 22
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man stands in front of a black background as he talks to us.
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Season 3 / Ep 23
7 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
White cartoon lobster with a line the same length of its tail next to it.
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Season 3 / Ep 24
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustrated copepods of different colors, shapes, and sizes. Text reads, “Copepods.”
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Season 3 / Ep 25
8 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Museum with large recreations of ancient mammals such as a deer, armadillo-like animal, and a rhino ancestor with a long neck and small head called a Paraceratherium. People walk at the feet of the statues.
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Season 3 / Ep 26
7 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman stands in front of a black background as she talks to us. An image next to her shows a person crouching next to a small fire as they reach a big stick into the flames.
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Season 3 / Ep 27
11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12