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Did These Feathered Wings Evolve to Be Scary?

The question of what non-flying dinosaurs were doing with their feathered wings – and why they originally evolved in the first place – has been a mystery since they were discovered. But thanks to what might just be one of the strangest experiments in the recent history of paleontology – involving a makeshift robot-dino – a new hypothesis has emerged…
Season 8 Episode 20 Length 10:16 Premiere: 06/23/26

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Did These Feathered Wings Evolve to Be Scary?
S8 E20 Length 10:16 Premiere Date 06/23/26

We Can't Remember What Giant Sloths Were Like
S8 E19 Length 11:45 Premiere Date 06/09/26

Did These Mammoths Dig Their Own Grave?
S8 E18 Length 07:44 Premiere Date 05/26/26

When Fish (Finally) Conquered the Deep Sea
S8 E17 Length 09:48 Premiere Date 05/12/26

Why Do Humans Age Fast?
S8 E16 Length 08:27 Premiere Date 04/28/26

When the Earth Had Supermountains
S8 E15 Length 09:34 Premiere Date 04/14/26

Does The World's Most Famous Dinosaur Have The Wrong Name?
S8 E14 Length 12:32 Premiere Date 03/31/26

Did Ancient Storms Kill These Pterosaurs?
S8 E13 Length 10:05 Premiere Date 03/17/26

Sensitive Teeth? Blame This Fish
S8 E12 Length 11:08 Premiere Date 03/03/26

The Fiery Rise of Flowering Plants
S8 E11 Length 10:45 Premiere Date 02/10/26

When Ancient Weeds Fooled Us
S8 E10 Length 11:37 Premiere Date 01/27/26

How Brawn Led to Brains
S8 E9 Length 12:14 Premiere Date 01/13/26

When a Tiny Land Bridge Triggered an Ice Age
S8 E8 Length 10:27 Premiere Date 12/17/25

What Was Greenland Like When it Was Green
S8 E7 Length 09:07 Premiere Date 12/02/25

How Chewing May Have Beat Extinction
S8 E6 Length 09:35 Premiere Date 11/18/25

How We Figured Out an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
S8 E5 Length 10:43 Premiere Date 11/04/25

Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident
S8 E4 Length 08:19 Premiere Date 10/21/25

Do Chins Make Us Human?
S8 E3 Length 12:07 Premiere Date 10/07/25

The Golden Age of Sharks
S8 E2 Length 12:40 Premiere Date 09/23/25

That Time Earth was Sticky
S8 E1 Length 10:45 Premiere Date 09/09/25

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