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This year we're celebrating handmade holidays with a logo shirt that our hosts Kallie and Gabriel designed by hand! For the best chance of delivery by 12/25, we recommend ordering by 12/8.⁠ complexly.store/products/eons-handmade-logo-shirt
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For the "E" design, Kallie took inspiration from extinct North American primate Ekgmowechashala. The "O" is a crinoid stem segment, also known as sea lilies, which are still around today, much to the delight of young Kallie who used to collect them! In the style of a scientific drawing, the specimen depicted is from the Carboniferous of Texas. ⁠
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Gabriel drew the "N" and "S" designs. The "N" is a trace fossil with a trilobite and trackways, while the "S" shows ripple marks-- geological features that tell us about ancient water movement.

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Happy Evolution Day! Today we celebrate the first publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin #OTD in 1859. And while the initial print run of 1,250 copies sold out on the first day...it actually wasn't his best selling book during his lifetime. That honor goes to The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms (1881) - which we did an episode on!

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This holiday season, you can get a shirt designed by hand by our hosts Kallie and Gabriel! This handmade logo design celebrates the humans behind the videos, and the care, creativity, and humanity that goes into making things that are worth making, like Eons itself. complexly.store/products/eons-handmade-logo-shirt

For the "E" design, Kallie took inspiration from extinct North American primate Ekgmowechashala. The "O" is a crinoid stem segment, also known as sea lillies, which are still around today, much to the delight of young Kallie who used to collect them! In the style of a scientific drawing, the specimen depicted is from the Carboniferous of Texas.

Gabriel drew the "N" and "S" designs. The "N" is a trace fossil with a trilobite and trackways, while the "S" shows ripple marks-- geological features that tell us about ancient water movement.

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Thank you, patrons! These are just some of the people who help us keep making great videos about natural history. Support the show and get fun perks at www.patreon.com/eons

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National Pumpkin Day is the perfect day to learn about the pumpkin toadlet: a teeny tiny frog that's... good enough. This little guy will make anyone feel like an overachiever just for just having working ears. Learn more from our friends at Bizarre Beasts.

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It's a holiday week here at Eons because this Wednesday is National Fossil Day! This year's official artwork represents the John Day Fossil Beds in OR. Fossils from John Day were part of episodes Eons344: How Weasels Got Skinny (https://youtu.be/n8xL5OoKhcA) and Eons321: What Happened To Primates In North America? (https://youtu.be/WNL9Jp9oeYA). We also mention this site in Eons515: How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils (https://youtu.be/2ofNufZVcMU). #NationalFossilDay2025

Join us on Instagram this Wednesday for National Fossil Day Bingo!

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In this episode, our friend and paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi drops by to show off her skull collection (relatable) and compare chins. She’s the host of NOVA’s Human - a new series that tells the epic story of our evolution. Check it out! https://youtu.be/qjH71hmrGGQ?si=iEkCC...

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National Fossil Day is October 15! We'll be celebrating our favorite holiday with our fellow natural history nerds with National Fossil Day Bingo. Our team came up with a variety of fun ways to enjoy National Fossil Day– things like visiting your local Natural History Museum, watching or sharing an Eons video, eating an angiosperm, taking a photo of a living dinosaur, and more.
Complete as many challenges as you can and tag us on Instagram when you get a bingo. Everyone who tags us in their bingo win will get a digital prize and will be entered in a random drawing to win a physical prize from one of our hosts. We’ll share the official bingo card next week! #nationalfossilday2025

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#OTD in 1999 Walking With Dinosaurs first premiered in the UK on BBC One. The six-part series was a landmark in science documentary filmmaking, using CGI and animatronics to depict prehistoric life. Then, just a few months ago, 25 years after the original, a reimagining of the iconic series premiered. It uses state-of-the-art visual effects and the latest research to reconstruct how these iconic creatures lived and died. Discover the incredible lives of dinosaurs unearthed from real-world excavations: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5...

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Thank you, patrons! Support from our patrons allows us to commission paleo art, work with our hosts, and continue making well-researched videos about the history of life on Earth. Join us at patreon.com/eons.

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