Insects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly, and, arguably, they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on, and arguing about, how and when insect wings first came about.
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This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons *****
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References: nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21633-2How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?PBS Eons2023-08-31 | Being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons *****
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What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? While a massive megatsunami might have drowned it for good, the underlying reason that it now lies under the sea may have actually been the same thing that made it so great in the first place.
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Around 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah. She couldn’t know it, but the planet itself was about to change in ways that would see her descendants evolve to live very different lives. A sudden ecological shift would force them to go from living in forests and feeding on a range of animals to specializing on just one single species: us. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons *****
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References: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl8316Humans have had houseplants for tens of thousands of years #science #naturalhistoryPBS Eons2023-07-20 | Or maybe cave plants, if you wanna be technical.
Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital StudiosThere was a time before ~mating~ was a thing #science #evolutionPBS Eons2023-06-29 | Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital Studios
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Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital StudiosThis penguin weighed over 300 pounds #science #evolution #birdsPBS Eons2023-05-11 | Giant penguin news!
While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door.
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A new discovery raises an important question: from an evolutionary perspective, who really has the stranger wings?
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What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction?
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Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the excellent nautiloid, seal, and whale reconstructions! nixillustration.com
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In the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk.
Thanks to Riley J. Mangan, Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University for his help with this episode!
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References: nature.com/articles/6884120#Sec16Paleontologists discovered a two-headed fossil #pbseons #science #reptilesPBS Eons2023-03-10 | The fossil reptile with two heads!
How is it possible to have cataclysmic eruptions without any real cataclysm?
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