• Eons: Surviving Deep Time

  • By: PBS
  • Podcast

Eons: Surviving Deep Time

By: PBS
  • Summary

  • 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?

    PBS (2022)
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Episodes
  • Could You Survive The Great Dying?
    Nov 26 2024

    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?

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    Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios.

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    56 mins
  • Could You Survive The Carboniferous?
    Nov 12 2024

    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?

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    Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios.

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    54 mins
  • Could You Survive The End-Ordovician Extinction?
    Oct 29 2024

    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?

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    Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios.

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    51 mins

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