Eons: Life and Death on Pangea · SEASON 1

How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land

Episode 2 · 2026-07-29

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Episode overview

The first herbivorous vertebrates evolve on the side of the amniote family tree leading to mammals. Alongside them come apex predators, like Dimetrodon. But the Early Permian Period ends in a mystery: is it an extinction event or just a fossil gap?

Season 1 episodes

1. How The Formation of Pangea Changed the World2026-07-29 2. How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land2026-07-29 3. The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef2026-08-05 4. A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth2026-08-12 5. That Time Almost Everything Died2026-08-19 6. Who Survived the Great Dying (and Why)2026-08-26