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Eons Season 1 · Episode 10

The Extinction That Never Happened

28th August 2017 10 mins Season 1 Episode 10

Natural history is full of living things that were long thought to have gone extinct only to show up again, alive and well. Paleontologists have a word for these kinds of organisms: They call them Lazarus taxa.

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Season 1 · Episode 11

The Strange Case of the Buzzsaw Jaws

There are many fossils that challenge our ability to form even the most basic idea of how a living thing looked, or lived, or functioned. One of the longest-running of these mysteries involved a 270-million-year-old sea creature called Helicoprion that once swam the seas around the supercontinent of Pangea.
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Kallie Moore
Kallie Moore
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Blake de Pastino
Blake de Pastino
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Michelle Barboza-Ramirez
Michelle Barboza-Ramirez
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