Is Eons coming back?
Eons (2017–present) on PBS
The answer: Between seasons — last episode May 26, 2026, no return date announced yet.
10seasons
288episodes
About Eons
Eons is currently airing on PBS; the next episode airs in 2026. The show last aired on April 28, 2026, and there is no confirmed return date. It has been running since its premiere on June 26, 2017.
Eons was a documentary series that explored the history of life on Earth. Hosted by Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino, the series took viewers through different geological periods, from the Archaean Eon to the end of the Ice Age, providing insights into the planet's biological and geological evolution.
The show featured three hosts who guided viewers through the story of Earth's development. The cast included Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino.
Eons episode schedule
288 aired
Aired · 288
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 | S2026·E10 | The Second-to-Last Mammoths Ever |
| May 12, 2026 | S2026·E9 | The Mystery of the Missing Deep-Sea Fish |
| 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 |
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| January 28, 2025 | S2025·E2 | The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii |
| January 14, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Did Asteroids Spark Life? |
| 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? |
…and 58 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.
