Could You Survive The Carboniferous Period?

The swamps of the Late Carboniferous Period teemed with giant insects, but it’s time for the amniotes - the ancestors of all reptiles, birds, and mammals to come - to earn the title of Fully Terrestrial Vertebrates. It’s getting more crowded on land - could you survive? ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons ***** Eons is a production of Complexly for PBS Digital Studios. Super special thanks to the following Patreon patrons for helping make Eons possible: Randall George, Morgan, Kevin Lacson, Marco Narajos, Collin Dutrow, Pope John XII, Aaditya Mehta, AllPizzasArePersonal, John H. Austin, Jr., Alex Hackman, Stephen Patterson, Odditeas , Karen Farrell, Jason Rostoker, Jonathan Rust, Mary Tevington, Bart & Elke van Iersel - De Jong, Irene Wood, Derek Helling, Mark Talbott-Williams, Nomi Alchin, Duane Westhoff, Hillary Ryde-Collins, Yu Mei, Albert Folsom, Dan Caffee, Nick Ryhajlo, Jeff Graham 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 Twitter - https://twitter.com/eonsshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/eonsshow/ #Eons #podcast References: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59734747 https://www.ucc.ie/en/fossil-heritage/irishfossils/lepidodendron/#:~:text=Lepidodrendon%20is%20an%20extinct%20plant,m%20across%20at%20the%20base https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/11/6/nwad288/7438873 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4925834/#:~:text=100%25%20oxygen%20can%20be%20tolerated,without%20any%20serious%20tissue%20damage https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/carboniferous.php https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10250471/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3945075/#:~:text=The%20first%20record%20of%20millipedes,how%20the%20millipedes%20are%20prepared https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ants/bugs-nf.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19679367/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981120301139 https://www.gbif.org/species/144097699#:~:text=The%20shape%20and%20cross%20section,trap%20slippery%20prey%20once%20caught https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018217312841?via%3Dihub https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2016.0125 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-023-00657-7