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Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste (S06E26)
Originally, the sour taste served as a warning signal for vertebrates, alerting them to potential threats. However, in certain animal species, incl...
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S06E02 - Primates vs Snakes (An Evolutionary Arms Race)
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S06E03 - How the Rise of Social Insects Shrunk These Dinosaurs
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S06E04 - How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
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S06E05 - How Horses Went From Food To Friends
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S06E06 - Why We Only Have Ten Toes (It's a Long Story)
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S06E07 - Sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago #shorts
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S06E08 - Dire wolves aren’t wolves at all #shorts
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S06E09 - Could humans survive if they traveled back in time 3 billion years? #shorts
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S06E10 - Some trees are more closely related to broccoli than to other trees #shorts
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S06E11 - Human knees are the worst and we have evolution to thank for that #shorts
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S06E12 - A crater in Turkmenistan has been on fire for about 50 years #shorts
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S06E13 - When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
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S06E14 - Only one human has been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits #shorts
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S06E15 - Could humans survive a giant space rock colliding with Earth 66 million years ago? #shorts
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S06E16 - The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
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S06E17 - The Tasmanian tiger is definitely extinct. So why do people keep report sightings of them? #shorts
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S06E18 - The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
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S06E19 - Who forged one of the most famous fake fossils of all time? #shorts
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S06E20 - After this bird went extinct the first time, evolution just hit replay #shorts
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S06E21 - Someone lost the only fossil from what might’ve been the biggest dinosaur ever #shorts
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S06E22 - Would you have survived the biggest mass extinction of all time? #shorts
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S06E23 - An ancient insect trapped in amber has a parasitic mushroom erupting out of it? #shorts
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S06E24 - How the Smallest Animal Got So Simple
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S06E25 - We know a lot about dinosaurs but...what was the first dinosaur? #shorts
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S06E26 - Why Sour May Be The Oldest Taste
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S06E27 - The Ancient Human Species With A Missing Body
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S06E28 - Are there dinosaur fossils in space? #shorts
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S06E29 - Why don’t rabbits get really, really big? #shorts
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S06E30 - An extinct human species was discovered deep within a cave system #shorts
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S06E31 - When Ants Domesticated Fungi
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S06E32 - The Curious Case of the Cave Lion
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S06E33 - Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
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S06E34 - Why did so many predators die at the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry? #shorts
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S06E35 - What is the most successful human species? #shorts
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S06E36 - Sharks have antibacterial skin. Can we use that to save lives? #shorts
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S06E37 - This Ice Age pup's last meal was a woolly rhino #shorts
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S06E38 - What came first, the sabertooth or the cat? #shorts
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S06E39 - How To Build A Woolly Mammoth (But Should We?)
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S06E40 - Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years
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S06E41 - Giant Viruses Blur The Line Between Alive and Not
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S06E42 - This new giant bacterium is visible to the naked eye #shorts
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S06E43 - Another Spinosaurus study, another opportunity to debate if Spinosaurus was aquatic #shorts
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S06E44 - There were dinosaurs with basically no arms at all, just hands! #shorts
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S06E45 - When Giant Millipedes Reigned
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S06E46 - How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
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S06E47 - Why Does Caffeine Exist?
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S06E48 - This was the biggest earthquake humans ever experienced #shorts
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S06E49 - Someone stole two of the most important documents in the history of science #shorts
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S06E50 - You can thank evolution for flesh-eating bees #shorts
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S06E51 - This is one of the oldest art workshops ever discovered! #shorts
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S06E52 - Did An Ancient Pathogen Reshape Our Cells?
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S06E53 - How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
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S06E54 - The Fungi That Turned Ants Into Zombies
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S06E55 - Did you know that fossils can get sick? #shorts
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S06E56 - A supervolcano in Idaho once caused a disaster 900 miles away. #shorts
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S06E57 - A bunch of very important fossils disappeared during WWII. #shorts
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S06E58 - Did this animal poop cubes? Giant cubes? #shorts
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S06E59 - Are wisdom teeth a problem for us because of evolution? Or because of our development? #shorts
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S06E60 - Our extinct relative was an ancient leopard’s lunch. #shorts
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S06E61 - When did we start wearing clothes? #shorts
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S06E62 - Did Megalodon go after whale faces specifically? #shorts
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S06E63 - Where Did Water Come From?
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S06E64 - Our Ancient Relative That Said 'No Thanks' To Life On Land
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S06E65 - Imagine a cat's mouth fully covering up their saber teeth. #shorts
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S06E66 - Darwin correctly predicted an animal existed without ever seeing it. #shorts
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S06E67 - Neandertals weren’t dumb cavemen. In lots of ways, they were just like us. #shorts
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