Eons: Surviving Deep Time
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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?
Recent Episodes
MAR 18, 2025
Will We Survive The Future? (with John Green!)
Humans have become a force of nature, but will we survive ourselves?
72 MIN
MAR 4, 2025
Which Evolutionary Niche Does Humankind Occupy? (Mailbag Episode!)
The Eons hosts answer your questions about deep time.
52 MIN
FEB 18, 2025
Could You Survive Living With Other Hominin Species?
In the Early Pleistocene Epoch, other upright-walking hominins roamed the Earth. Could you survive living with other hominin species?
71 MIN
FEB 4, 2025
Could You Survive The Messinian Salinity Crisis?
In the Late Miocene Epoch the Mediterranean Sea was blocked from the Atlantic Ocean and became a desert. Could you survive in that salty, desolate landscape?
63 MIN
JAN 21, 2025
Could You Survive The K-Pg Extinction?
Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth?
59 MIN
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