A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth -
eons: life and death on pangea

Sun, Nov 8 12:30 A.M. NHPBS (11.1)

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, all before the time of the dinosaurs.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 104

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Sun, Nov 8	12:30 A.M.	A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth NHPBS (11.1)

About 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.

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