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EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Premieres Wednesday, July 29, 2026 on the PBS App, PBS.org, EONS YouTube Channel and PBS Stations

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EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 1: How The Formation of Pangea Changed the World Seed plants and amniotes adapt to dry climates, helping them thrive on Pangea in the Permian Period.
  • Original7/29/2026

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 2: How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land The first herbivorous vertebrates evolve on the side of the amniote family tree leading to mammals.
  • Original7/29/2026

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 3: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef An extinction in the Middle Permian decimates life, from a fossil reef to our ancient relatives.
  • Original8/5/2026

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 4: A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth The first saber-teeth and tusks evolve in the Late Permian and our ancestors, the cynodonts, appear.
  • Original8/12/2026

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 5: That Time Almost Everything Died An apocalypse ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 80% of species.
  • Original8/19/2026

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA

Episode 6: Who Survived the Great Dying (and Why) Life begins to rebound after the destruction of the mass extinction ending the Permian Period.
  • Original8/26/2026

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