Learn about how researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…

The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World Eons

Premiered May 14, 2024
The Second Time Sponges Took Over The World

Researchers have discovered a piece of a weird, but critical, time in the deep past…a time when the first-ever mass extinction may have turned Planet Earth into Sponge World.

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Eons

Join hosts Michelle Barboza-Ramirez, Kallie Moore, and Blake de Pastino as they take you on a journey through the history of life on Earth. From the dawn of life in the Archaean Eon through the Mesozoic Era — the so-called “Age of Dinosaurs” -- right up to the end of the most recent Ice Age.

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