Season 2 of the Eons podcast will be a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked in the comments section of... more
Just because our ancestors have made it through every major period of upheaval in the Earth’s history so far doesn't... more
We’ve reached the present! Before we take one look into the future in our final episode, all four Eons hosts... more
Today, we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet, but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch,... more
In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean.... more
66 million years ago, an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires, an impact winter, and the end of the... more
There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the... more
In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures... more
A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to... more
The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors... more
The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth... more