Why Do We Care About What Happened Millions Of Years Ago? (Mailbag Episode with Hank Green)

05/31/22 • 40 min

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Former host of Eons and our current boss Hank Green joins Kallie, Michelle, and Blake for a Q&A episode where we discuss everything from why all this matters to what specifically did sauropods taste like?

Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time is produced by Complexly for PBS.
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