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The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart
- Published_at:2023-05-02
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: wallace line malay archipelago biogeography geology Wallacea bali lombok asia australia Alfred Russel Wallace plate tectonics sea level paleocontinents Sunda Sahul natural history australasia science evolution paleontology biology
- description: In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Produced by Complexly...
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How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses
- Published_at:2022-11-08
- Category:Entertainment
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: seahorse hippocampus syngnathids Prosolenostomus plate tectonics seagrass Tethys Mediterranean Miocene Eocene Cenozoic Mesozoic Cretaceous fossils paleontology natural history evolution genetics genome DNA
- description: The brand new Eons Puzzle! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-puzzle And the 2023 Eons Calendar! https://www.complexlycalendars.com/products/eons How did seahorses — one of the ocean’s worst swimmers — spread around the globe? And...
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How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
- Published_at:2021-03-24
- Category:Education
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history neanderthal handedness righties lefties right handed left handed teeth lateralization brain Homo heidelbergensis bipedalism...
- description: Check out The Great Courses Plus: https://TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/Eons No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary...
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How Humans Lost Their Fur
- Published_at:2020-12-02
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history hominin human evolution fur hair pelage Homo erectus Australopithecus sweat persistence hunting apocrine eccrine megaconus
- description: We’re the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature, and ultimately, it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage. ...
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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
- Published_at:2020-10-28
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history crab crabs true crab false crab paralomis anomura Palaeopalaemon decopod Decapoda Brachyura Eoprosopon Platykotta mesozoic...
- description: Help out Eons and take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020survey For some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again. What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so...
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Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
- Published_at:2019-11-26
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history mammoth mammoths male female gender gap elephants tierzoo siberia south dakota nebraska Berezovka mammoth lyuba columbian...
- description: Eons Socks! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-socks Check out Ours Poetica: https://youtu.be/8NK2gXouhBU Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000...
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How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
- Published_at:2019-11-06
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history cats felis catus domestic cat feline cyprus domestication house cat wildcat felis silvestris felis silvestris lybica felis...
- description: A 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start? And how did humans help cats take over the world? ...
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How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
- Published_at:2019-07-17
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history eoproterozoic icehouse feedback climate carbon cycle dropstones cap carbonates glacial glaciers ice sheets sulfur flood...
- description: 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. Thanks...
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
- Published_at:2019-05-01
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history Crocodile crocodilian boverisuchus pristichampsus hooved crocodile ziphodont geiseltal competition niche planocraniidae...
- description: Our Pocket Shirt!: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons/products/eons-pocket-shirt 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...
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That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
- Published_at:2018-05-22
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history Carnian Pluvial Episode CPE Triassic Period reptiles volcanic eruptions Pangea crurotarsans rhynchosaurs dicynodonts...
- description: Check out our NEW POSTER: https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-poster At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But...
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How the Squid Lost Its Shell
- Published_at:2018-04-17
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history cephalopods octopus squid cuttlefish shell gladius molluscs coleoid nautilus septa siphuncle phragmocone Sphooceras...
- description: The ancestors of modern, squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times, their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the...
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How the Turtle Got Its Shell
- Published_at:2018-03-12
- Category:Science & Technology
- Channel:PBS Eons
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- tags: dinosaurs dinos paleo paleontology scishow eons pbs pbs digital studios hank green john green complexly fossils natural history turtle shell plastron carapace Proganochelys Triassic Period clade eureptilia parareptilia pareiasaurs Bradysaurus Anthodon...
- description: Where did turtles come from? And how did the they get their shells? The answers to these questions would eventually cause scientists to rethink the entire history of reptile evolution. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his...
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