Season 3

Find Out Why and How Weasels Push the Limits on What is Metabolically Possible.
How Weasels Got Skinny

How To Survive the Little Ice Age
How did the Nunalleq village manage to survive and prosper during the Little Ice Age?
How To Survive the Little Ice Age

How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
Learn about the History and Evolution of the Red (and other) Hot Chilli Peppers.
How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)

How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
Learn Why Being Right-handed May Have Deep Evolutionary Roots In Our Lineage.
How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative
Explore The Story Of Venomous Mammals, Both Living And Extinct.
Our Bizarre, Possibly Venomous, Relative

The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldn’t Build A Dam
Today's Beavers Are Pretty Special And Here's Why.
The Bear-Sized Beaver That Couldn’t Build A Dam

The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
History Of This Two-faced Creature And What It Can Teach Us About Mass Extinction.
The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"

This small change in our appearance has helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.
How Humans Lost Their Fur

The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
It arose from rhino ancestors, but Paraceratherium took a different evolutionary path.
The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
What is it about the crab’s form that makes it so evolutionarily successful?
Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
We’ve only started to get to the bottom of how clubs worked and how it developed.
How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

Why Did These Ancient Gophers Have Horns?
The horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.