Eons: Surviving Deep Time

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Eons: Surviving Deep Time

Season 2 of the Eons podcast will be a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked in the comments section of our YouTube videos: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past? 

  1. FEB 18

    Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?

    Today, we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet, but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch, other upright-walking, tool-wielding, large-brained hominins roamed the Earth. In a time when behavior might be the key tool to survival, could you? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    1h 12m

  2. FEB 4

    Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?

    In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty, desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    1h 4m

  3. JAN 21

    Could You Survive The K-Pg Extinction?

    66 million years ago, an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires, an impact winter, and the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    59 min

  4. JAN 7

    Could You Survive On Hateg Island?

    There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the hunting ground of a terrifying apex predator unlike any other: a giant pterosaur. Could you manage to survive on this island? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    54 min

  5. 12/10/2024

    Could You Survive The End-Triassic?

    In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period. But life at the end of the period, including the earliest dinosaurs, faced yet another catastrophic extinction event. Could you survive in this strange time period? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    55 min

  6. 11/26/2024

    Could You Survive The Great Dying?

    A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to us as the Great Dying. As a result, a large majority of terrestrial life would disappear, but our ancestors had the adaptations (and the healthy dose of luck) needed to survive – but would you?  -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    56 min

  7. 11/12/2024

    Could You Survive The Carboniferous?

    The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come - to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial Vertebrates. It’s getting more crowded on land - could you survive? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    54 min

  8. 10/29/2024

    Could You Survive The End-Ordovician Extinction?

    The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - more than 80% of species in the oceans died out. But could you survive its aftermath? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram

    51 min
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Season 2 of the Eons podcast will be a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked in the comments section of our YouTube videos: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past? 

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