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PBS 2026 - 1 season 6 eps Returning series

Eons: Life and Death on Pangea

2026 - 1 season 6 eps

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Season 1

26 min

S1 · E1 · Jul 29, 2026

How The Formation of Pangea Changed the World Episode 1

In the Late Carboniferous Period, predatory amphibians and giant arthropods ruled the swamps. But ancient seed plants and amniotes were evolving adaptations to drier climates. These will help them thrive on Pangea in the Permian Period to come.

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26 min

S1 · E2 · Jul 29, 2026

How Eating Plants Shaped Life on Land Episode 2

The first herbivorous vertebrates evolve on the side of the amniote family tree leading to mammals. Alongside them come apex predators, like Dimetrodon. But the Early Permian Period ends in a mystery: is it an extinction event or just a fossil gap?

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26 min

S1 · E3 · Aug 5, 2026

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Reef Episode 3

Life in the Middle Permian Period flourished. Gigantic reef complexes stretched for hundreds of kilometers in what’s now the Texas desert, while strange mammal-relatives and huge reptiles thrived on land. But this epoch ends in a crushing extinction.

26 min

S1 · E4 · Aug 12, 2026

A Tale of Tusks and Saber Teeth Episode 4

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. And this all happened before the time of the dinosaurs.

26 min

S1 · E5 · Aug 19, 2026

That Time Almost Everything Died Episode 5

The Permian Period ended with the biggest mass extinction of all time; more than 80% of species vanished. It altered the course of evolution in ways that we can still feel, 252 million years later. And it was caused by a rapidly changing climate.

26 min

S1 · E6 · Aug 26, 2026

Who Survived the Great Dying (and Why) Episode 6

Around 250 million years ago, at the dawn of the Triassic Period, life on Earth was devastated. Eventually, the survivors of the Permian would be replaced by new ecosystems unlike anything the world had ever seen. The age of reptiles was beginning.

6 episodes in Season 1

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Set during the Permian Period, hundreds of millions of years ago, EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA transports viewers to a world shaped by the supercontinent Pangea, extreme climate shifts, and ecosystems unlike anything seen today.

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Kallie Moore

Michelle Barboza-Ramirez

Blake de Pastino

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Blood for Dust

Total runtime 2h 30m · Episode length 25 min · Type Documentary

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Premiered

July 29, 2026

Latest episode

August 26, 2026

Status

Returning series

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PBS

Country

United States

Type

Documentary

Episode length

25 min

Total runtime

2h 30m

Original language

English

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English

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