October 25, 2023 • 43m
Evolution. Competition. Mass extinction. Three fundamental rules have driven the rise and fall of life on Earth for over four billion years.
October 25, 2023 • 54m
For billions of years, land on Earth was uninhabitable. But in the seas, predation allowed species to thrive before — and after — ...Read more
October 25, 2023 • 57m
Sprawling moss, towering trees, flying insects, limbed amphibians: Early species vied for domination as the land went from hostile to hospitable.
October 25, 2023 • 55m
After Earth's third mass extinction, mammals' surviving ancestors ruled the supercontinent Pangea. But lizards soon ushered in the age of reptiles.
October 25, 2023 • 51m
The formation of continents with varied environments allowed for an explosion of biodiversity — and turbo-charged the evolution of mighty dinosaurs.
October 25, 2023 • 53m
The dinosaurs met their end with a cataclysmic asteroid impact. Rising from the ashes, birds reinvented themselves into a dynasty ...Read more
October 25, 2023 • 52m
Emerging from the dinosaurs' shadows, mammals went from underdogs to global power, with game-changing adaptations that would conqu...Read more
October 25, 2023 • 50m
As the Ice Age thawed, humans rose above the rest. But the possibility of a sixth mass extinction now looms: Has our ingenuity caused our downfall?