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Explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth with the Smithsonian and an award-winning professor.

Syllabus

01: History on a Geological Scale
02: Life Cast in Ancient Stone
03: Tools of the Paleontological Trade
04: How Do You Fossilize Behavior?
05: Taxonomy: The Order of Life
06: Minerals and the Evolving Earth
07: Fossil Timekeepers
08: Fossils and the Shifting Crust
09: Our Vast Troves of Microfossils
10: Ocean Fire and the Origin of Life
11: The Ancient Roots of Biodiversity
12: Arthropod Rule on Planet Earth
13: Devonian Death and the Spread of Forests
14: Life's Greatest Crisis: The Permian
15: Life's Slow Recovery after the Permian
16: Dinosaur Interpretations and Spinosaurus
17: Whales: Throwing Away Legs for the Sea
18: Insects, Plants, and the Rise of Flower Power
19: The Not-So-Humble Story of Grass
20: Australia's Megafauna: Komodo Dragons
21: Mammoths, Mastodons, and the Quest to Clone
22: The Little People of Flores
23: The Neanderthal among Us
24: Paleontology and the Future of Earth
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Stuart Sutherland

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