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Eons - Season 6 Episode 40 Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years

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Paleodictyon, a hexagonal-patterned fossil, is a bit of a mystery. We don’t even know if it’s a trace fossil, or the organism itself. So… what could it be?

First Air Date: Jun 26, 2017

Last Air date: Oct 14, 2022

Season: 6 Season

Episode: 246 Episode

Runtime: 10 minutes

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Popularity: 43.062

Language: English

Episode How our deadliest parasite turned to the dark side Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again How Horses Went From Food To Friends Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts When Ants Domesticated Fungi The Curious Case of the Cave Lion Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record? Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts What is the most successful human species? #shorts Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?) Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts When Giant Millipedes Reigned How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles Why Does Caffeine Exist? This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts Where Did Water Come From? Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts Here are two ways to get a fossil species named after you. #shorts