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When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent

When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent

Nearly 200 years ago, a new obsession gripped Britain: the Victorian Fern Craze.

Nearly 200 years ago, a new obsession gripped Britain: the Victorian Fern Craze.

The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

This Jurassic fish made the biggest mistake of its life

This Jurassic fish made the biggest mistake of its life

There's No Single Cradle of Humankind

There's No Single Cradle of Humankind

Giant sloth bones may have been the ultimate fashion accessory in ancient Brazil

Giant sloth bones may have been the ultimate fashion accessory in ancient Brazil

The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis

The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis

A huge pterosaur colony once lived in what's now Oregon

A huge pterosaur colony once lived in what's now Oregon

What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now?

There’s something strange about the dire wolves and saber-toothed cats from the La Brea tar pits

There’s something strange about the dire wolves and saber-toothed cats from the La Brea tar pits

How Long Have We Been Caring For Each Other?

How Long Have We Been Caring For Each Other?

Who made the first flour?

Who made the first flour?

How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race

How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race

Days on planet Earth used to be a lot shorter.

Days on planet Earth used to be a lot shorter.

Where Are The Cave Lions?

Where Are The Cave Lions?

Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur?

The World's Greatest Ape

The World's Greatest Ape

Why did Charles Darwin yell at earthworms? For science, of course

Why did Charles Darwin yell at earthworms? For science, of course

Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought

Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought

Rest in pieces, ancient baby salamander

Rest in pieces, ancient baby salamander

Why Do So Many Plants Make Caffeine?

Why Do So Many Plants Make Caffeine?

Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins

Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins

Why are these fossils decapitated?

Why are these fossils decapitated?

Only Earth Has Fire

Only Earth Has Fire

How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea

How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea

What’s with all the giant handaxes?

What’s with all the giant handaxes?

This dinosaur had dragon wings

This dinosaur had dragon wings

Why Only Earth Has Fire

Why Only Earth Has Fire

Who found the first fossils in the Americas?

Who found the first fossils in the Americas?

When did we start talking?

When did we start talking?

Beans And Bees Gave Us Butterflies

Beans And Bees Gave Us Butterflies

Have you ever heard of fossil turduckens?

Have you ever heard of fossil turduckens?

It Rained For 2 Million Years

It Rained For 2 Million Years

The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering

The Huge Extinctions We Are Just Now Discovering

Most animals do not cross this line

Most animals do not cross this line

Our ancestor contracted a virus - millions of years later, we still have it

Our ancestor contracted a virus - millions of years later, we still have it

When Did We Stop Being Naked?

When Did We Stop Being Naked?

Why did blinking evolve?

Why did blinking evolve?

Snake Detection Hypothesis

Snake Detection Hypothesis

Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?

Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?

Chili peppers may be MUCH older than we thought

Chili peppers may be MUCH older than we thought

National Fossil Day: The Wheel of Deep Time

National Fossil Day: The Wheel of Deep Time

We are sweaty runners

We are sweaty runners

You're Living On An Ant Planet

You're Living On An Ant Planet

What is a carnivorous plant?

What is a carnivorous plant?

There’s something weird about this 105 million-year-old amber.

There’s something weird about this 105 million-year-old amber.

That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen

That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen

Could dinosaurs have created sonic booms?

Could dinosaurs have created sonic booms?

How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?

How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?

Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?

Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe?

Barnacles were Charles Darwin’s nemesis.

Barnacles were Charles Darwin’s nemesis.

New archaeology role model just dropped!

New archaeology role model just dropped!

We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem

We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem

Who wins in the fight between giant elephants and Neandertals?

Who wins in the fight between giant elephants and Neandertals?

Is the Anthropocene a thing?

Is the Anthropocene a thing?

Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck

Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck

This ancient giraffe relative had a hat made of bone #science #giraffes

This ancient giraffe relative had a hat made of bone #science #giraffes

Humans have had "houseplants" for tens of thousands of years #science #naturalhistory

Humans have had "houseplants" for tens of thousands of years #science #naturalhistory

There was a time before ~mating~ was a thing #science #evolution

There was a time before ~mating~ was a thing #science #evolution

Trilobites used their tridents to fight for love #science

Trilobites used their tridents to fight for love #science

One of the most tragic fossils we've ever heard of #science #paleontology

One of the most tragic fossils we've ever heard of #science #paleontology

How did Neandertals smell? #science #evolution

How did Neandertals smell? #science #evolution

Scientists replicated ancient arrowheads and shot them at...dead goats? #science #evolution

Scientists replicated ancient arrowheads and shot them at...dead goats? #science #evolution

Octopuses are revealing secrets about the ancient Antarctic climate #science #antarctica

Octopuses are revealing secrets about the ancient Antarctic climate #science #antarctica

Why are a bunch of dire wolf fossils useful? #science #direwolves

Why are a bunch of dire wolf fossils useful? #science #direwolves

This penguin weighed over 300 pounds #science #evolution #birds

This penguin weighed over 300 pounds #science #evolution #birds

A Natural History of Mars

A Natural History of Mars

The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart

The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart

How did massive dinosaurs look after their hatchlings? #science #dinosaur

How did massive dinosaurs look after their hatchlings? #science #dinosaur

It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal

It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal

We just found the oldest evidence of surgical amputation #science #fossils

We just found the oldest evidence of surgical amputation #science #fossils

This is a 40 million-year-old flower preserved in amber #science #plants

This is a 40 million-year-old flower preserved in amber #science #plants

Did we outlive Neandertals because of our clothing? #science #evolution

Did we outlive Neandertals because of our clothing? #science #evolution

Could you outrun a T. rex??? #science #dinosaur

Could you outrun a T. rex??? #science #dinosaur

Rest in peas, Gregor Mendel #science #dna

Rest in peas, Gregor Mendel #science #dna

How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction

How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction

Why ankylosaurs evolved their massive tail clubs #dinosaurs #science #evolution

Why ankylosaurs evolved their massive tail clubs #dinosaurs #science #evolution

Some state fossils are just better than others #science #fossils #states

Some state fossils are just better than others #science #fossils #states

The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction

The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction

What's will the next supercontinent look like? #science #continents

What's will the next supercontinent look like? #science #continents

Here’s how potatoes changed human evolution #science #evolution

Here’s how potatoes changed human evolution #science #evolution

Frogs are better than dinosaurs #science #evolution #dinosaur

Frogs are better than dinosaurs #science #evolution #dinosaur

Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Showed Up

Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Showed Up

The first and only diving dinosaur (that isn't a bird) #pbseons #science #fossils #dinosaur

The first and only diving dinosaur (that isn't a bird) #pbseons #science #fossils #dinosaur

How would you hunt a giant armadillo built like a tank?

How would you hunt a giant armadillo built like a tank?

Why doesn't Australia have an apex predator? #science #australia #evolution #pbseons

Why doesn't Australia have an apex predator? #science #australia #evolution #pbseons

Our “Junk DNA” Is More Important Than We Once Thought

Our “Junk DNA” Is More Important Than We Once Thought

The London underground has its own type of mosquito #science #evolution #pbseons

The London underground has its own type of mosquito #science #evolution #pbseons

Paleontologists discovered a two-headed fossil #pbseons #science #reptiles

Paleontologists discovered a two-headed fossil #pbseons #science #reptiles

When did our ancestors start cooking? #pbseons #evolution #science

When did our ancestors start cooking? #pbseons #evolution #science

That Time the American West Blew Up

That Time the American West Blew Up

Scientists watched a single-celled organism become multicellular #pbseons #science #evolution

Scientists watched a single-celled organism become multicellular #pbseons #science #evolution

How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains

How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains

We’re missing the original Neandertal Y chromosome #pbseons #science #evolution

We’re missing the original Neandertal Y chromosome #pbseons #science #evolution

These animals were fossilized mid-mating #science #nature #fossils

These animals were fossilized mid-mating #science #nature #fossils

The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs

The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs

We found an ancient brain in the fossil record #science #pbseons #crabs

We found an ancient brain in the fossil record #science #pbseons #crabs

A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution

A dangerous "paleo diet" may have caused a terrible death #shorts #science #humanevolution

These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible

These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible

You (yes, you) are pretty close to a supervolcano #shorts

You (yes, you) are pretty close to a supervolcano #shorts

"Hell Pigs" really need to work on their branding #shorts

"Hell Pigs" really need to work on their branding #shorts

A lost fossil might reveal sabertooth cats roamed Asia #shorts

A lost fossil might reveal sabertooth cats roamed Asia #shorts

Whales went through a manatee phase #shorts

Whales went through a manatee phase #shorts

We mostly don’t talk about Burmese amber - here’s why #shorts

We mostly don’t talk about Burmese amber - here’s why #shorts

The Neandertal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity

The Neandertal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity

A bunch of vegetables you eat are all actually the same plant #shorts

A bunch of vegetables you eat are all actually the same plant #shorts

This ankylosaur was the size of a cat! #shorts

This ankylosaur was the size of a cat! #shorts

Scientists think they’ve identified the longest dinosaur #shorts

Scientists think they’ve identified the longest dinosaur #shorts

This ancient crab had very, very big eyes #shorts

This ancient crab had very, very big eyes #shorts

Sloths used to swim in the sea! #shorts

Sloths used to swim in the sea! #shorts

Why birds don’t have weapons? #shorts

Why birds don’t have weapons? #shorts

When Ancient People Changed Their Own DNA

When Ancient People Changed Their Own DNA

Can we use gene editing to turn an elephant into a woolly mammoth? #shorts

Can we use gene editing to turn an elephant into a woolly mammoth? #shorts

We decoded Steller's sea cow's genome #shorts

We decoded Steller's sea cow's genome #shorts

This is the oldest known case of cannibalism in the fossil record #shorts

This is the oldest known case of cannibalism in the fossil record #shorts

These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy

These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy

Cane toads have evolved to be their own predators #shorts

Cane toads have evolved to be their own predators #shorts

The Extinct Human Species Found In Remote Cave Chambers

The Extinct Human Species Found In Remote Cave Chambers

Something strange is happening to frogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone #shorts

Something strange is happening to frogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone #shorts

What did we look like 1.6 million years ago? #shorts

What did we look like 1.6 million years ago? #shorts

You've heard of supercontinents but what about superoceans? #shorts

You've heard of supercontinents but what about superoceans? #shorts

The Mediterranean Sea once disappeared #shorts

The Mediterranean Sea once disappeared #shorts

Did this saber-toothed cat hunt mammoths? #shorts

Did this saber-toothed cat hunt mammoths? #shorts

The biggest European dinosaur ever found was in a guy’s backyard #shorts

The biggest European dinosaur ever found was in a guy’s backyard #shorts

There's a new plesiosaur named "Snaky crocface" and it refused to conform #shorts

There's a new plesiosaur named "Snaky crocface" and it refused to conform #shorts

How Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?

How Did Our Most Famous Ancestor Really Die?

There used to be "Megalakes" in the Sahara #shorts

There used to be "Megalakes" in the Sahara #shorts

When The "Combat Wombat" Became An Apex Predator

When The "Combat Wombat" Became An Apex Predator

These moths try to look like their spider predators #shorts

These moths try to look like their spider predators #shorts

Researchers built a new camera based on trilobite eyes #shorts

Researchers built a new camera based on trilobite eyes #shorts

Sauropods essentially had cushions attached to their feet #shorts

Sauropods essentially had cushions attached to their feet #shorts

The Unsolved Case of a Fake Human Fossil

The Unsolved Case of a Fake Human Fossil

Something big happened: an evolutionary biologist won a Nobel Prize #shorts

Something big happened: an evolutionary biologist won a Nobel Prize #shorts

The "demon ducks" took over a decade to grow up #shorts

The "demon ducks" took over a decade to grow up #shorts

Why weren't T. rex eyes as big as their skulls? #shorts

Why weren't T. rex eyes as big as their skulls? #shorts

We know The Day After Tomorrow is implausible but just how implausible? @SciShow #shorts

We know The Day After Tomorrow is implausible but just how implausible? @SciShow #shorts

What’s the fastest motion that your body can make? #shorts

What’s the fastest motion that your body can make? #shorts

Megalodon may have been even scarier than we realized #shorts

Megalodon may have been even scarier than we realized #shorts

There’s Something Weird About Neandertal DNA And It Might Be Our Fault

There’s Something Weird About Neandertal DNA And It Might Be Our Fault

Scientists watched 70,000 generations of bacteria growth and saw evolution in action #shorts

Scientists watched 70,000 generations of bacteria growth and saw evolution in action #shorts

This is the world’s deepest hole (made by humans) #shorts

This is the world’s deepest hole (made by humans) #shorts

How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

Sabertooth cats could bite through skulls of...other sabertooth cats #shorts

Sabertooth cats could bite through skulls of...other sabertooth cats #shorts

Would you eat mummified bison that died 36,000 years ago? #shorts

Would you eat mummified bison that died 36,000 years ago? #shorts

The eyes of this fossil spider still shine in the dark #shorts

The eyes of this fossil spider still shine in the dark #shorts

We might’ve found vampire graves in Poland #shorts

We might’ve found vampire graves in Poland #shorts

Are We All Actually Archaea?

Are We All Actually Archaea?

A fossil rhino preserved in lava #shorts

A fossil rhino preserved in lava #shorts

Gigantopithecus was basically a real-life bigfoot but we're missing its body #shorts

Gigantopithecus was basically a real-life bigfoot but we're missing its body #shorts

Darwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose

Darwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you #shorts

Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you #shorts

Eons Live: An Epoch Livestream

Eons Live: An Epoch Livestream

Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us #shorts

Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us #shorts

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it #shorts

Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it #shorts

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth #shorts

Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth #shorts

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Land

Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Land

Where Did Water Come From?

Where Did Water Come From?

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch #shorts

Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch #shorts

The Only Human Found in the La Brea Tar Pits

The Only Human Found in the La Brea Tar Pits

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts

Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII #shorts

A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII #shorts

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away #shorts

A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away #shorts

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts

Cordyceps Turned These Ants Into Zombies

Cordyceps Turned These Ants Into Zombies

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts

This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts

Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

Why Does Caffeine Exist?

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

When Giant Millipedes Reigned

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts

There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts

Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts

This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

We Can “Bring Back” The Woolly Mammoth. Should We?

We Can “Bring Back” The Woolly Mammoth. Should We?

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts

What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts

This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

What is the most successful human species? #shorts

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts

Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

The Curious Case of the Cave Lion

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

When Ants Domesticated Fungi

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts

An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts

Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts

We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts

An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts

Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts