Eons: Life and Death On Pangea

It's the final act of the Paleozoic Era, just before the Age of Dinosaurs begins, and dark times are ahead. In this series we will tell the story of life on the supercontinent of Pangea. From a landscape ruled by strange mammal-relatives, through the relentless hellscape of the Great Dying itself and its aftermath, this series will shed light on the world of the Permian, how it ended, and how life recovered.

Sun, Oct 25	12:30 A.M.	How Eating Plants Shaped Life On Land NHPBS (11.1) The first herbivorous vertebrates evolve on the side of the amniote family tree leading to mammals.
Sun, Nov 1	12:30 A.M.	The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Reef NHPBS (11.1) Life in the Middle Permian Period flourished. Reef complexes stretched for hundreds of kilometers in what's now the Texas desert, while strange mammal-relatives and huge reptiles thrived on land.
Sun, Nov 8	12:30 A.M.	A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth NHPBS (11.1) In the Late Permian Period, increasingly mammal-like traits were gradually emerging in our ancient relatives.
Sun, Nov 15	12:30 A.M.	That Time Almost Everything Died NHPBS (11.1) The Permian Period ended with the biggest mass extinction of all time; more than 80% of species vanished.
Sun, Nov 22	12:30 A.M.	Who Survived The Great Dying (And Why) NHPBS (11.1) Around 250 million years ago, at the dawn of the Triassic Period, life on Earth was devastated.