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Eons (2017–present) on PBS
The answer: Currently airing — last episode April 28, 2026.
10seasons
286episodes
About Eons
Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called "Age of Dinosaurs" -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.
Eons episode schedule
286 aired
Aired · 286
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| April 28, 2026 | S2026·E8 | How Dinosaurs May Have Cursed Us With Aging |
| April 14, 2026 | S2026·E7 | When the Earth Had Supermountains |
| March 31, 2026 | S2026·E6 | Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name? |
| March 17, 2026 | S2026·E5 | The Mystery of This Deadly Lagoon |
| March 3, 2026 | S2026·E4 | Why Evolution Made Your Teeth Hurt |
| February 10, 2026 | S2026·E3 | How Flowers Burned the World |
| January 27, 2026 | S2026·E2 | When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us |
| January 13, 2026 | S2026·E1 | Why Did We Evolve Brains? |
| December 16, 2025 | S2025·E22 | When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age |
| December 2, 2025 | S2025·E21 | What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green |
| November 18, 2025 | S2025·E20 | How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction |
| November 4, 2025 | S2025·E19 | How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs |
| October 21, 2025 | S2025·E18 | Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident |
| October 7, 2025 | S2025·E17 | We're The Only Ones With Chins - And We Don't Know Why |
| September 23, 2025 | S2025·E16 | That Time Sharks Got Weird |
| September 9, 2025 | S2025·E15 | That Time the Earth Was Sticky |
| July 22, 2025 | S2025·E14 | When Dinosaurs Threw Up A Mystery |
| July 15, 2025 | S2025·E13 | How Dinosaur Extinction Gave Us Fruit |
| July 1, 2025 | S2025·E12 | Why Paleontologists Can't Stop Fighting About Spinosaurus |
| June 17, 2025 | S2025·E11 | The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs |
| May 20, 2025 | S2025·E10 | Darwin's Final Obsession |
| May 6, 2025 | S2025·E9 | There's An Invisible Ocean Between These Fossils |
| April 22, 2025 | S2025·E8 | The Rise and Fall of a Whale-Eating Sea Monster |
| April 8, 2025 | S2025·E7 | When Red Pandas Roamed North America |
| March 25, 2025 | S2025·E6 | The Arms Race That Made Insects Take Flight |
| March 11, 2025 | S2025·E5 | The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth |
| February 25, 2025 | S2025·E4 | Why Wasn't There A Second Age of Reptiles? |
| February 11, 2025 | S2025·E3 | The Strange Primates That Thrived In The Mountains |
| January 28, 2025 | S2025·E2 | The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii |
| January 14, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Did Asteroids Spark Life? |
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| December 17, 2024 | S2024·E22 | When Neandertals Became Apex Predators |
| December 3, 2024 | S2024·E21 | When the Amazon Flowed Backwards |
| November 19, 2024 | S2024·E20 | How Animals Got Butts |
| November 5, 2024 | S2024·E19 | What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals? |
| October 22, 2024 | S2024·E18 | The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot |
| October 8, 2024 | S2024·E17 | How the Himalayas Changed the World |
| September 25, 2024 | S2024·E16 | When Earth "Ate" A Planet |
| September 10, 2024 | S2024·E15 | How The Elephant Got Its Trunk |
| September 3, 2024 | S2024·E14 | What Was The First Beverage? |
| August 20, 2024 | S2024·E13 | The Mystery of South America's False Horses |
| August 6, 2024 | S2024·E12 | When India Was An Island |
| May 28, 2024 | S2024·E11 | When The Atlantic Ripped Open A Supercontinent |
| May 14, 2024 | S2024·E10 | How Sponges Beat The First Mass Extinction |
| April 30, 2024 | S2024·E9 | There's No Single Cradle of Humankind |
| April 16, 2024 | S2024·E8 | The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis |
| April 2, 2024 | S2024·E7 | What Will Earth Be Like 300 Million Years From Now? |
| March 19, 2024 | S2024·E6 | When Did We Start Practicing Medicine? |
| March 5, 2024 | S2024·E5 | How Snake Venom Sparked An Evolutionary Arms Race |
| February 20, 2024 | S2024·E4 | Why Is It So Hard to Tell the Sex of a Dinosaur? |
| February 6, 2024 | S2024·E3 | Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought |
| January 23, 2024 | S2024·E2 | Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins |
| January 9, 2024 | S2024·E1 | How Ancient Microbes Rode Bug Bits Out to Sea |
| December 19, 2023 | S2023·E24 | Why Only Earth Has Fire |
| December 5, 2023 | S2023·E23 | Beans & Bees (Not Bats) Gave Us Butterflies |
| November 21, 2023 | S2023·E22 | The Secret Extinctions Of The Silurian Period |
| November 9, 2023 | S2023·E21 | When Did We Stop Being Naked? |
| October 24, 2023 | S2023·E20 | Are Giant Animals Inevitable? |
| September 26, 2023 | S2023·E19 | This Is An Ant World, We're Just Living In It |
| September 12, 2023 | S2023·E18 | That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen |
| August 29, 2023 | S2023·E17 | Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe? |
| August 15, 2023 | S2023·E16 | We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem |
| August 1, 2023 | S2023·E15 | We've Had The Giraffe's Neck All Wrong |
| May 9, 2023 | S2023·E14 | A Natural History of Mars |
| May 2, 2023 | S2023·E13 | The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart |
| April 25, 2023 | S2023·E12 | It's Becoming Very Clear That Birds Are Not Normal |
| April 13, 2023 | S2023·E11 | How (Some) Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction |
| April 4, 2023 | S2023·E10 | The Real Story Of The Dodo Bird's (Current) Extinction |
| March 28, 2023 | S2023·E9 | Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Appeared |
| March 16, 2023 | S2023·E8 | Does Our "Junk" DNA Make Us Human? |
| March 7, 2023 | S2023·E7 | That Time the American West Blew Up |
| March 1, 2023 | S2023·E6 | How a Mass Extinction Changed Our Brains |
| February 14, 2023 | S2023·E5 | The Mystery Of The Mashed-Up Dinosaurs |
| February 7, 2023 | S2023·E4 | These Fossils Were Supposed To Be Impossible |
| January 31, 2023 | S2023·E3 | The Neandertal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity |
| January 19, 2023 | S2023·E2 | When Ancient People Changed Their Own DNA |
| January 10, 2023 | S2023·E1 | These Creatures Were Darwin's Greatest Enemy |
| December 14, 2022 | S2022·E32 | How Did Lucy Live and Die? |
| December 6, 2022 | S2022·E31 | Thylacoleo Is The Missing Australian Apex Predator |
| November 16, 2022 | S2022·E30 | We Met Neandertals Way Earlier Than We Thought |
| November 8, 2022 | S2022·E29 | How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses |
| October 25, 2022 | S2022·E28 | Are We All Actually Archaea? |
| October 18, 2022 | S2022·E27 | Darwin Missed An Example of Evolution Right Under His Nose |
| October 4, 2022 | S2022·E26 | Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land |
| September 27, 2022 | S2022·E25 | Where Did Water Come From? |
| August 23, 2022 | S2022·E24 | The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies |
| August 18, 2022 | S2022·E23 | How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked |
| August 11, 2022 | S2022·E22 | Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells? |
| July 28, 2022 | S2022·E21 | Why Does Caffeine Exist? |
| July 21, 2022 | S2022·E20 | How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles |
| July 13, 2022 | S2022·E19 | When Giant Millipedes Reigned |
| June 29, 2022 | S2022·E18 | Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not |
| June 15, 2022 | S2022·E17 | Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years |
| June 8, 2022 | S2022·E16 | How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?) |
| May 26, 2022 | S2022·E15 | Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record? |
| May 17, 2022 | S2022·E14 | The Curious Case of the Cave Lion |
| May 10, 2022 | S2022·E13 | When Ants Domesticated Fungi |
| April 27, 2022 | S2022·E12 | The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body |
| April 20, 2022 | S2022·E11 | Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste |
| April 13, 2022 | S2022·E10 | How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple |
| March 29, 2022 | S2022·E9 | The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last |
| March 22, 2022 | S2022·E8 | The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal |
| March 15, 2022 | S2022·E7 | When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands |
| February 23, 2022 | S2022·E6 | Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story) |
| February 16, 2022 | S2022·E5 | How Horses Went From Food To Friends |
| February 8, 2022 | S2022·E4 | How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again |
| January 27, 2022 | S2022·E3 | How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs |
| January 19, 2022 | S2022·E2 | Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race) |
| January 11, 2022 | S2022·E1 | How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned to the Dark Side |
| December 16, 2021 | S2021·E31 | When Pterosaurs Walked |
| December 9, 2021 | S2021·E30 | The Fossil Record In Your Mouth |
| December 2, 2021 | S2021·E29 | Why The Paleo Diet Couldn't Save The Neanderthals |
| November 17, 2021 | S2021·E28 | When It Was Too Hot for Leaves |
| October 28, 2021 | S2021·E27 | How Dinosaurs Coupled Up |
| October 21, 2021 | S2021·E26 | How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean |
| October 7, 2021 | S2021·E25 | When Mammals Only Went Out At Night |
| September 29, 2021 | S2021·E24 | How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon |
| September 23, 2021 | S2021·E23 | How a Supervolcano Ignited an Evolutionary Debate |
| September 16, 2021 | S2021·E22 | How Pollination Got Going Twice |
| September 1, 2021 | S2021·E21 | The Creature That Stumped Darwin |
| August 24, 2021 | S2021·E20 | How the Starfish Got Its Arms |
| August 12, 2021 | S2021·E19 | Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs? |
| July 29, 2021 | S2021·E18 | The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths |
| July 21, 2021 | S2021·E17 | The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals |
| July 14, 2021 | S2021·E16 | Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death? |
| June 3, 2021 | S2021·E15 | Where Are All The Squid Fossils? |
| May 20, 2021 | S2021·E14 | How Weasels Got Skinny |
| May 12, 2021 | S2021·E13 | When Trees Took Over the World |
| April 29, 2021 | S2021·E12 | When Crocs Thrived in the Seas |
| April 20, 2021 | S2021·E11 | How To Survive the Little Ice Age |
| April 7, 2021 | S2021·E10 | How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn) |
| March 24, 2021 | S2021·E9 | How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed |
| March 18, 2021 | S2021·E8 | How Worm Holes Ended Wormworld |
| March 10, 2021 | S2021·E7 | Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative |
| February 24, 2021 | S2021·E6 | The Genes We Lost Along the Way |
| February 17, 2021 | S2021·E5 | The Return of Giant Skin-Shell Sea Turtles |
| February 11, 2021 | S2021·E4 | When We First Talked |
| January 28, 2021 | S2021·E3 | The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years |
| January 21, 2021 | S2021·E2 | The Reign of the Hell Ants |
| January 13, 2021 | S2021·E1 | What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver? |
| December 22, 2020 | S2020·E39 | The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces" |
| December 17, 2020 | S2020·E38 | When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming |
| December 9, 2020 | S2020·E37 | When Lizards Took Over the World |
| December 2, 2020 | S2020·E36 | How Humans Lost Their Fur |
| November 19, 2020 | S2020·E35 | The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth |
| November 10, 2020 | S2020·E34 | How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas |
| October 28, 2020 | S2020·E33 | Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs? |
| October 13, 2020 | S2020·E32 | How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs |
| October 7, 2020 | S2020·E31 | How Plants Became Carnivores |
| September 30, 2020 | S2020·E30 | The First and Last North American Primates |
| September 15, 2020 | S2020·E29 | When Rodents Had Horns |
| September 10, 2020 | S2020·E28 | The Sea Monster from the Andes |
| September 2, 2020 | S2020·E27 | How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna |
| August 20, 2020 | S2020·E26 | The Oddest Couple in the Fossil Record |
| August 13, 2020 | S2020·E25 | How We Figured Out Fermentation |
| August 5, 2020 | S2020·E24 | The Dinosaur Who Was Buried at Sea |
| July 23, 2020 | S2020·E23 | The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived |
| July 16, 2020 | S2020·E22 | The Story of the Dino Stampede |
| July 7, 2020 | S2020·E21 | How the Walrus Got Its Tusks |
| June 24, 2020 | S2020·E20 | When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic |
| June 16, 2020 | S2020·E19 | The World Before Plate Tectonics |
| June 9, 2020 | S2020·E18 | When Dinosaur Look-Alikes Ruled the Earth |
| May 28, 2020 | S2020·E17 | How We Identified One of Earth's Earliest Animals |
| May 20, 2020 | S2020·E16 | The Two Viruses That We've Had For Millions of Years |
| May 12, 2020 | S2020·E15 | How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction |
| April 29, 2020 | S2020·E14 | How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales |
| April 22, 2020 | S2020·E13 | The Risky Paleo Diets of Our Ancestors |
| April 15, 2020 | S2020·E12 | When a Billion Years Disappeared |
| March 31, 2020 | S2020·E11 | How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends |
| March 25, 2020 | S2020·E10 | How the Egg Came First |
| March 18, 2020 | S2020·E9 | When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea |
| March 10, 2020 | S2020·E8 | When the Sahara Was Green |
| February 27, 2020 | S2020·E7 | How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake |
| February 19, 2020 | S2020·E6 | When the Rainforests Collapsed |
| February 11, 2020 | S2020·E5 | A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck |
| February 4, 2020 | S2020·E4 | How South America Made the Marsupials |
| January 28, 2020 | S2020·E3 | The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body |
| January 16, 2020 | S2020·E2 | The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity |
| January 9, 2020 | S2020·E1 | That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared |
| December 17, 2019 | S2019·E39 | The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda |
| December 12, 2019 | S2019·E38 | The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs |
| November 26, 2019 | S2019·E37 | Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game |
| November 19, 2019 | S2019·E36 | When Giant Hypercarnivores Prowled Africa |
| November 6, 2019 | S2019·E35 | How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) |
| October 29, 2019 | S2019·E34 | Were These Monsters Inspired by Fossils? |
| October 22, 2019 | S2019·E33 | When Hobbits Were Real |
| October 16, 2019 | S2019·E32 | The (Ovi)Raptor That Paleontologists Got Wrong |
| October 3, 2019 | S2019·E31 | When Antarctica Was Green |
| September 25, 2019 | S2019·E30 | When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar |
| September 18, 2019 | S2019·E29 | How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings |
| September 11, 2019 | S2019·E28 | When Bats Took Flight |
| August 28, 2019 | S2019·E27 | The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs |
| August 21, 2019 | S2019·E26 | The Missing Link That Wasn't |
| August 14, 2019 | S2019·E25 | Was This Dinosaur a Cannibal? |
| August 7, 2019 | S2019·E24 | When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia |
| July 30, 2019 | S2019·E23 | How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World |
| July 17, 2019 | S2019·E22 | How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice) |
| July 9, 2019 | S2019·E21 | When We Met Other Human Species |
| June 25, 2019 | S2019·E20 | When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas |
| June 19, 2019 | S2019·E19 | When the Synapsids Struck Back |
| June 11, 2019 | S2019·E18 | How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out) |
| June 5, 2019 | S2019·E17 | The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs" |
| May 30, 2019 | S2019·E16 | The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained |
| May 16, 2019 | S2019·E15 | The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats |
| May 7, 2019 | S2019·E14 | When We Took Over the World |
| May 1, 2019 | S2019·E13 | The Croc That Ran on Hooves |
| April 23, 2019 | S2019·E12 | The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time |
| April 9, 2019 | S2019·E11 | When We Tamed Fire |
| April 2, 2019 | S2019·E10 | When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas |
| March 26, 2019 | S2019·E9 | When We First Made Tools |
| March 12, 2019 | S2019·E8 | The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time |
| March 5, 2019 | S2019·E7 | The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls |
| February 27, 2019 | S2019·E6 | How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World |
| February 13, 2019 | S2019·E5 | The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story) |
| February 5, 2019 | S2019·E4 | The Island of Shrinking Mammoths |
| January 29, 2019 | S2019·E3 | The Humans That Lived Before Us |
| January 15, 2019 | S2019·E2 | How Blood Evolved (Many Times) |
| January 8, 2019 | S2019·E1 | When Humans Were Prey |
| December 19, 2018 | S2018·E45 | Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct |
| December 11, 2018 | S2018·E44 | When Apes Conquered Europe |
| December 4, 2018 | S2018·E43 | When Sharks Swam the Great Plains |
| November 28, 2018 | S2018·E42 | How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees |
| November 20, 2018 | S2018·E41 | When Camels Roamed North America |
| November 14, 2018 | S2018·E40 | When Birds Stopped Flying |
| November 6, 2018 | S2018·E39 | When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean |
| October 23, 2018 | S2018·E38 | The Two People We're All Related To |
| October 16, 2018 | S2018·E37 | Your Place in the Primate Family Tree |
| October 9, 2018 | S2018·E36 | When Giant Amphibians Reigned |
| October 2, 2018 | S2018·E35 | Can We Get DNA From Fossils? |
| September 18, 2018 | S2018·E34 | Did Raptorex Really Exist? |
| September 11, 2018 | S2018·E33 | When We First Walked |
…and 56 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.
