Eons: How Two Microbes Changed History

10mAired 2018-01-15

What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you?

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Eons: How Two Microbes Changed History

How Two Microbes Changed History

The Time Terror Birds Invaded

Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

The Great Snake Debate

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying

How Sex Became a Thing

The Other Explosion You Should Know About

How the Turtle Got Its Shell

What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope

The Most Useful Fossils in the World

Inside the Dinosaur Library

What Was the Ancestor of Everything?

How the Squid Lost Its Shell

How the Chalicothere Split In Two

The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts

The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus

From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

Where Did Viruses Come From?

When Fish First Breathed Air

How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

FAQs From Our First Year

When Insects First Flew

The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

When Fish Wore Armor

When Birds Had Teeth

How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)

How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves

When We First Walked

Did Raptorex Really Exist?

Can We Get DNA From Fossils?

When Giant Amphibians Reigned

Your Place in the Primate Family Tree

The Two People We're All Related To

When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

When Birds Stopped Flying

When Camels Roamed North America

How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees

When Sharks Swam the Great Plains

When Apes Conquered Europe

Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct