Eons: Life and Death on Pangea · SEASON 1
The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef
Episode 3 · 2026-08-05

- Documentary
Episode overview
Life in the Middle Permian Period flourished. Gigantic reef complexes stretched for hundreds of kilometers in what’s now the Texas desert, while strange mammal-relatives and huge reptiles thrived on land. But this epoch ends in a crushing extinction.
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