M3h05ajJw0o when-birds-stopped-flying When Birds Stopped Flying Ratites have spread to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. And there are fossils of Ratites in Europe, Asia, and North America too. That’s a lot of ground to cover for birds that can’t fly. So how did Ratites end up all over the world? 9JkypvA1LxQ why-didnt-we-go-extinct-10-million-years-ago Why Didn't We Go Extinct 10 Million Years Ago? Written by Carys Phillips, Art by the legendary Ettore Mazza, Title editing by Manuel Rubio, Fact checking by Amanda Rossillo uMItdDUYAeA pbs-eons-animals-might-be-much-older-than-we-thought PBS Eons | Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself? kjxNdBI2SFg nova-decoding-neanderthals NOVA | Decoding Neanderthals Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age. HE2MmAGUgnw pbs-eons-our-most-mysterious-extinct-cousins PBS Eons | Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors. 6l53l7FPOsE what-if-everything-you-need-to-know-about-evolution What If | Everything You Need to Know About Evolution If only that one fatal asteroid never hit Earth. Would dinosaurs still be alive today? kO2hSKLuFNs history-of-the-earth-what-caused-the-cambrian-explosion History of the Earth | What Caused The Cambrian Explosion? Written & researched by Leila Battison | Video & script edited by Pete Kelly | Narration by David Kelly. pp30Oyfrc5A history-of-humankind-do-we-still-have-ape-brains History of Humankind | Do We Still Have Ape Brains? Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist. Stock footage from Storyblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock. 3bzwZHt_6dI north-02-what-were-humans-doing-100000-years-ago NORTH 02 | What Were Humans doing 100,000 Years Ago? The recently discovered Burckler Crater would have had a significant effect of early humans especially since it occurred only 5000 years ago. NNVA6tl4Im4 north-02-a-neanderthal-odyssey NORTH 02 | A Neanderthal Odyssey In this documentary, we discuss everything we know about the enigmatic Neanderthals. 4XmFUWdgKWk pbs-eons-how-some-plants-survived-the-k-pg-extinction PBS Eons | How Some Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better. dubeUQzk7D0 what-will-humans-look-like-in-1000-years-it-gets-weird What Will Humans Look Like in 1000 Years? It's Getting Weird! Evolution is slow. What if we get the power to take matters into our own hands? zLTAKMOBJ3A homo-neanderthalensis-the-neanderthal-man Homo Neanderthalensis | The Neanderthal Man What comes to mind when you think of a neanderthal? Even though perceptions of these ancient humans have changed drastically over the past few decades, it's still likely that the word is synonymous with brutish, primitive, knuckle-dragging apes. H51uUUoXOI0 skeleton-reveals-early-humans-had-sex-with-neanderthals Skeleton Reveals Early Humans had Sex with Neanderthals In 1998, the skeleton of a 29,000-year-old child was unearthed in Portugal’s Lapedo valley. dVcneOQirfA pbs-eons-the-search-for-the-genes-that-make-us-human PBS Eons | The Search for The Genes that Make Us Human In the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk. V62l2wzpuAQ why-was-the-great-dying-so-bad Why Was the Great Dying So Bad? The ending of the Permian Period marks the worst mass extinction event in the history of life - the Great Dying. But what made this extinction so severe? u9khcxin8Xs are-big-brains-the-key-to-our-species-dominance Are Big Brains the Key to Our Species' Dominance? In this video, we'll take a look at the development of the human brain from Homo erectus to modern humans. We'll explore the changes that have occurred over time, and the reasons for them. UnGe_Gx0WB8 scientists-cannot-explain-this-new-scientific-discovery-in-africa Scientists Cannot Explain this Scientific Discovery in Africa In studies that embrace the increasingly controversial Out of Africa Hypothesis, the Yoruba are frequently assumed to be the African ancestor of non-African groups. This includes all people of Eurasian, Native American and Aboriginal Australian ancestry. CFuTHEgodsY mysteries-of-human-evolution-the-extinction-of-homo-erectus Mysteries of Human Evolution | The Extinction of Homo Erectus In this video, we'll take a look at one of the greatest mysteries of human evolution: the extinction of Homo Erectus. urlnWsUczd4 stefan-milo-the-life-and-death-of-a-neanderthal Stefan Milo | The Life and Death of a Neanderthal Roughly 50,000 years ago, Shanidar 1 aka Nandy walked the earth. What can we say about the life and death of this Neanderthal? dhCENZnh7n8 the-dark-origins-of-the-most-successful-ancient-human-homo-erectus Dark Origins of The Most Successful Ancient Human In this video, we'll explore the mysterious origins of the most successful ancient human: Homo erectus. Was he born in the cradle of humanity? 1k-NbUXUTsY the-fascinating-origins-of-hominins The Fascinating Origins of Hominins The Hominini form a taxonomic tribe of the subfamily Homininae ("hominines"). Hominini includes the extant genera Homo (humans) and Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) and in standard usage excludes the genus Gorilla (gorillas). aGAfNrg_Bt8 prehistoric-humans-homo-habilis-the-first-humans Prehistoric Humans | Homo Habilis: The First 'Humans' | Just less than two and a half million years ago, in the Early Pleistocene epoch of Eastern Africa, a group of hairy, bipedal apes evolved, and soon after, began to use basic stone tools. JS0Cn-bDuKs oldest-dna-ever-found-reveals-secrets-of-the-ancient-arctic Oldest DNA Ever Found Reveals Secrets of the Ancient Arctic Scientists have retrieved the oldest DNA ever, which points to an ecosystem unlike anything on Earth today. f6M2067BNn8 would-life-really-develop-differently-on-another-planet Would Life Really Develop Differently on Another Planet? Finding out the appearance of aliens from what we already know about convergent evolution. NJAzS1eRQS4 neanderthals-and-sapiens-the-100000-year-war Neanderthals and Sapiens, the 100,000-Year WAR The extinction of Neanderthal man is an issue that has never been too hotly debated, especially when we consider that this hominid was the undisputed ruler on our planet for more than 200,000 years and disappeared less than 30,000 years ago, to make way for the species to which we belong by descent: Homo sapiens. K_W61aL5D5I meeting-our-ancient-human-ancestors Meeting Our Ancient Human Ancestors The Cradle of Humankind in South Africa offers an incredible opportunity to come face to face with some of our earliest human ancestors. Australopithecus, Homo naledi, Paranthropus and others have all been discovered here and give us a rare glimpse into our own past. ATubwpnVLAY quanta-magazine-exploring-the-deep-mystery-of-lifes-origins Quanta Magazine | Exploring the Deep Mystery of Life's Origins As an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, Nick Lane explores the deep mystery of how life evolved on Earth. fgaL4wEM3qc ancient-human-homo-naledi Ancient Human | Homo Naledi Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago. M0HoI-C6dDA what-is-it-that-made-homo-sapiens-so-intelligent What is it that made Homo Sapiens so Intelligent? Is it true or not true that we Sapiens are different? And if true, what do we have that is different from all other creatures on the planet? 2uVzUFjVP0c this-is-what-the-earth-looked-like-before-the-dinosaurs-era This is what the Earth Looked Like Before the Dinosaurs Era The Earth has changed so many times and transformed heavily from when it first formed. How life came from non-life is still a big scientific mystery.