Eons S01E21 · The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

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Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we're here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and feathers.

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1. 1 1. The Trouble With Trilobites2017-06-26 · 10mTrilobites are famous not just because they were so beautifully functional, or because they happened to preserve so well. They’re known the world over because they were everywhere!
2. 2 2. When Did the First Flower Bloom?2017-07-03 · 10mDuring the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the
3. 3 3. The Tully Monster & Other Problematic Creatures2017-07-11 · 10mThere are animals in the fossil record that challenge some of our most basic ideas about what animals are supposed to look like. If there ever was a monster on this planet that was
4. 4 4. Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers2017-07-17 · 10mIf you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.
5. 5 5. What Colors Were Dinosaurs?2017-07-24 · 10mWe know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they?
6. 6 6. The Story of Saberteeth2017-07-31 · 10mSmilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it was only the last and largest of the great sabertoo
7. 7 7. That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything2017-08-07 · 10mWhat if we told you that there was a time when oxygen almost wiped out all life on Earth? 3 billion years ago, when the world was a place you’d never recognize, too much of a good
8. 8 8. The Biggest Thing That Ever Flew2017-08-14 · 10mToday, we’re familiar with two types of flying vertebrates -- birds and bats. But over 66 million years ago, there was a giraffe-sized reptile that soared through the sky.
9. 9 9. Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor2017-08-21 · 10mWith its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even cr
10. 10 10. The Extinction That Never Happened2017-08-28 · 10mNatural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms
11. 11 11. The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws2017-09-11 · 10mThere are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned. One of the longest-running of these myster
12. 12 12. The Age of Giant Insects2017-09-18 · 10mInsects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. About 315
13. 13 13. History's Most Powerful Plants2017-09-26 · 10mFossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted lar
14. 14 14. How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?2017-10-02 · 10mPart of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it’s just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cre
15. 15 15. When The Earth Was Purple2017-10-09 · 10mBesides the blue of the oceans, the dominant color of our planet, as we know it, is green. But imagine a time when the Earth looked a little … purple.
16. 16 16. 'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing2017-10-16 · 10mCrocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. But even the most ancien
17. 17 17. When Whales Walked2017-10-23 · 10mWe know whales as graceful giants bound to the sea. But what if we told you there was actually a time when whales could walk.
18. 18 18. An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs2017-10-30 · 10mOur image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just h
19. 19 19. A Brief History of Geologic Time2017-11-06 · 10mBy looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s history. These key events frame the chapters in the story o
20. 20 20. The Search for the Earliest Life2017-11-20 · 10mMore than 4 billion years ago, the crust of the Earth was still cooling and the oceans were only beginning to form. But in recent years, we’ve started to discover that, even in thi
21. 21 21. The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers2017-11-27 · 10mOver the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new q
22. 22 22. The Last Time the Globe Warmed2017-12-04 · 10mImagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (S
23. 23 23. What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?2017-12-11 · 10mProbably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it liv
24. 24 24. When Giant Fungi Ruled2017-12-18 · 10m420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on