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Eons: Life and Death on Pangea

Eons: Life and Death on Pangea

★ 9.5/10•2026•25m•Documentary
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Set during the Permian Period, hundreds of millions of years ago, EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA transports viewers to a world shaped by the supercontinent Pangea, extreme climate shifts, and ecosystems unlike anything seen today.

StatusReturning Series
Runtime25m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 29, 2026

Episodes

Episode 1 - How The Formation of Pangea Changed the WorldE1

How The Formation of Pangea Changed the World

In the Late Carboniferous Period, predatory amphibians and giant arthropods ruled the swamps. But ancient seed plants and amniotes were evolving adaptations to drier climates. These will help them thrive on Pangea in the Permian Period to come.

Jul 29, 2026

Episode 2 - How Eating Plants Shaped Life on LandE2

How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land

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?

Jul 29, 2026

E3

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef

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.

Aug 5, 2026

E4

A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth

In the Late Permian Period, increasingly mammal-like traits were gradually emerging in our ancient relatives. The first saber-teeth and tusks evolved, and our ancestors, the cynodonts, appeared. And this all happened before the time of the dinosaurs.

Aug 12, 2026

E5

That Time Almost Everything Died

The Permian Period ended with the biggest mass extinction of all time; more than 80% of species vanished. It altered the course of evolution in ways that we can still feel, 252 million years later. And it was caused by a rapidly changing climate.

Aug 19, 2026

E6

Who Survived the Great Dying (and Why)

Around 250 million years ago, at the dawn of the Triassic Period, life on Earth was devastated. Eventually, the survivors of the Permian would be replaced by new ecosystems unlike anything the world had ever seen. The age of reptiles was beginning.

Aug 26, 2026

Actors

Kallie Moore

Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

Blake de Pastino

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