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Eons Season 2 · Episode 19

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

22nd May 2018 10 mins Season 2 Episode 19

At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for the wetter.

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Season 2 · Episode 20

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they’re not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when life was trapped between two mass extinctions.
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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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