Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident

It’s beginning to look like our success on land, and that of all tetrapods, from frogs to dogs to dinosaurs, was just a lucky side-effect of fish trying to stay fish. ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to https://to.pbs.org/PBSSupportEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Perseus Bluejay, Mary Sammartino , Hugo van den Hoek, Melodie Chen-Glasser, rene fuqua, John Hildebrandt, Irene Wood, Derek Helling, Casey Hague, Susan Freund, CalamityBangs, Brian Clubb, William Sunderland, Kerry Conneely, Mark Talbott-Williams, Nomi Alchin, Nicholas Arger, Josh L, Duane Westhoff, Yu Mei, A.B. Heckert, Lea Nisay, Beth K, Eric Younge, Hillary Ryde-Collins, Elyssa, Albert Folsom, Alex Hackman, Ruth Orr, Steve Hill, Jennifer Courtemanche, Steven Kern, Jason Rostoker, Lianne Lairmore, John H. Austin, Jr., Walter Ray-Dulany, Eric Franklin, John D Elias, Willie, Gizmo, Nquiztor, Annemiek Arkema, Wookiee Henderson, Randall George, SKS PHD, John Celio, Eric Edwards, Karen Farrell, raus , Aaditya Mehta, IAmHere, Collin Dutrow, Beth-Ann Cheney, Travis Bauer, Sarah Grunow-Mau, Deanna Hernandez, Christopher Samuel, AllPizzasArePersonal, lyric1981, Mary Tevington, Kevin Lacson, Dan Caffee, Nick Ryhajlo, Nathan Paskett, Stephanie Schlea, Jeff Graham, Betsy Radley If you'd like to support the channel, head over to http://patreon.com/eons and pledge for some cool rewards! Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/pbseons.bsky.social #Eons References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ncA_Hrxr5JcvBRiQF0pK31fYAEHnZN076Z3CF3LXzJU/edit?usp=sharing