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Just because our ancestors have made it through every major period of upheaval in the Earth’s history so far doesn't mean that our survival through future changes is guaranteed. Humans have become a force of nature, but will we survive ourselves? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

We’ve reached the present! Before we take one look into the future in our final episode, all four Eons hosts have gathered to reflect on their survival experiences - and answer some of your questions.-- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

Today, we Homo sapiens are used to being the only hominin on the planet, but in the Early Pleistocene Epoch, other upright-walking, tool-wielding, large-brained hominins roamed the Earth. In a time when behavior might be the key tool to survival, could you? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

In the Late Miocene Epoch, tectonic forces uplifted the Earth's crust, blocking off the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. A once-thriving marine ecosystem was replaced by an endless salty, desolate landscape. Is it possible for you to survive here? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

66 million years ago, an asteroid hit our planet triggering global wildfires, an impact winter, and the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Could you make it through the darkest days of planet Earth?-- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

There was an island in the Late Cretaceous Period in the fragmented European archipelago that turned out to be the hunting ground of a terrifying apex predator unlike any other: a giant pterosaur. Could you manage to survive on this island? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

In the aftermath of the Great Dying, rapid evolutionary radiation resulted in the rise of a bunch of weird creatures in the Triassic Period. But life at the end of the period, including the earliest dinosaurs, faced yet another catastrophic extinction event. Could you survive in this strange time period? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

A catastrophic volcanic event in the Late Permian Period caused the biggest mass extinction of all time - known to us as the Great Dying. As a result, a large majority of terrestrial life would disappear, but our ancestors had the adaptations (and the healthy dose of luck) needed to survive – but would you?  -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come - to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial Vertebrates. It’s getting more crowded on land - could you survive? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

The End-Ordovician Extinction was the first of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions in the history of life on Earth - more than 80% of species in the oceans died out. But could you survive its aftermath? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

In the ocean, the Cambrian Period was one of startling evolutionary innovations, but on land, it was barren, with no vegetation of any kind. In this strange world before plants made their way onto land… could you survive?-- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

By the end of the Devonian Period, the land had exploded with plant life and ancient invertebrates. There was also Tiktaalik - one of the first known vertebrates able and willing to move from the water to land. Our distant relative figured out how to survive in this dramatically different environment, can you? -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitterInstagram 

Introducing Eons: Surviving Deep Time! Season 2 of the Eons podcast is a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past?  -- Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. If you'd like to support the show, head over to Patreon and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet?FacebookYouTubeTwitter Instagram 

Season 2 of the Eons podcast is coming soon! This season will be a longform exploration of a question we’re often asked: how long could a human survive if they were dropped into a particular period of the geologic past? 

Studies have found Neandertal DNA in people living in - and descended from - populations in Europe, Asia, and, most recently, Africa. So, in a way, these ancient relatives of ours are somehow both here and gone. We know we shared the planet with them in the not-so-distant past… But what happened to them? Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS. © 2022 PBS. All rights reserved.