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When Summer Lasted For 10,000,000 Years

27 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most people would take a sunny-blue day after a rainy-gloomy one any day of the week. Yet, after watching this video, you might just change your mind ...

What Happened When Two Continents Collided

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You ever play one of those games, where you can pit animals you shouldn't in a battle royale to see what happens? Well turns out that mother natur...

The Most Brutal Prehistoric Injuries Ever Survived

14 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To you and me, these wounds are fatal, but to prehistoric animals that were simply built diff, it wasn't anything but a flesh wound.

Why Water Dinosaurs Never Happened

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A man can dream...

What Happened When It Rained For Millions Of Years

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A bit of rain here and there is no biggie, and actually kind of cozy. Now over a million years of rain on the other hand... then things start getting ...

The Most Terrifying Discoveries Made By Archeologists

15 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Love your neighbor is apparently a saying that didn’t get around in ancient times, as we humans did some pretty messed up things to our own kind bac...

The Only Marine Mammals That No Longer Exist

08 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marine mammals are all around us, whales, seals, manatees, the list goes on and these lot have been a staple of the earth for tens of millions of year...

Prehistoric Animals Preserved So Well They Look Like Roadkill

01 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You ever day dream of what it would be like to travel back in time and see exactly what prehistoric animals looked like? Well me too, and unfortunatel...

Titanoboa Wasn't The Largest Snake Ever... This Was

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that the Titanoboa was the king of snakes and largest to ever live...but was it really? Lemme introduce you to the new King...

When The Amazon Was A Mega Lake

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You’d never want to get lost in the Amazon, BUT you really really would not want to get lost in the Prehistoric Amazon, as it was a giant cesspit of...

What Earth Was Like After The Worst Extinction

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Present day Earth might not always be the easiest place to live in, but let's just say, be glad you don't live during the Induan...

This Cat Is Evolving Into A Fish

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You know the story, cats hate water, but this is really a great lie that has been pushed onto you, as in Asia, there is one cat species that has not o...

The Fossils That Shouldn't Exist

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Didn't have two headed marine reptiles and dinosaur mummies on your bingo card, did ya?

All 5 Types Of Sabertooths Explained

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Step aside Vampires, your teeth are no match for the sabertoothed...cats. But did you know the cats weren't the only ones to evolve saber-teeth? Nor w...

The Scariest Dinosaur You've Never Heard Of

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to dinosaurs, bigger always means scarier right? No, and not even close, as this one family of theropod has proved, who might just be ju...

Why Islands Turn Animals Into Giants

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out that skull island really isn't that far fetched...

The Sunken Continents That History Forgot About

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out the story of Atlantis is more realistic than you once thoughtIf you want to support the podcast consider checking out my merch :) https://st...

The World's Most Unknown Apex Predator

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They too like to move it, move it

If Jaws Had Been A Crocodile

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Du du du du du

If Dinosaurs Faced Off Against Mammals

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Animals are pretty metal today, and of the many kinds that exist, we mammals are pretty cool, but how do we stack up against the 'coolest' group ever,...

The Crocodile That Shouldn't Exist

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you thought the Nile crocodile was scary, wait until you hear about the Cuban crocodile - hunter of megafauna, and galloper of lands.

Why Sharks Get Scarier The Deeper You Go

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you thought great whites were bad, just wait until you hear about these guys...

The Most Bizarre Things Discovered In Amber

23 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amber might not be able to bring back dinosaurs, but what it can do might be even more impressive...

The Animal That Just Doesn't Make Sense...

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Looks like Simba's got some explaining to do

The World Right After The Dinosaurs Died

16 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dinosaurs may have fallen 66 million years ago, marking the end of an era and ushering in an age which would eventually come to be known as the age of...

Everything You Know About Camels Is Wrong

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Think you know camels? Think again. They didn’t come from deserts, their humps don't hold water, and they're certainly not the boring pack a...

The Most Bizarre Deaths Ever Discovered In Fossils

09 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you thought 1000 ways to die was bad, wait until you hear about these prehistoric guys...

Why Evolution Keeps Making The Same Animals

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Beneath Germany’s shale, workers uncovered fossils that shouldn’t exist...or at least it would seem so. Instead what was found was proof of evolut...

The Human Species That Shouldn't Exist

02 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in a South African cave, scientists uncovered a human species unlike any other - small, strange, and seemingly out of place in time. Who were the...

The Most Impossible Animals Ever Discovered

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Immortality, wouldn't it be nice? Well, for some animals out there, they don't actually have to wonder, as thanks to some nifty evolution, the...

20 Minutes of Dinosaur Facts You Didn't Know You Needed To Know

26 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All your perfect first date icebreakers in less than 21 minutes, what more could you ask for?

Shark Attacks So Brutal They Became Fossils

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dun dun… dun dun… dun dun dun dun

The Last Time Earth Was Iceless

12 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Warm breeze, palm trees, and good ol crocodiles, just some of the things you might imagine when picturing a tropical paradise, and yet I am talking ab...

The Strangest Mouths Ever Discovered

05 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Say cheeseeee

Extinct Animals That Might Still Be Alive

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When an animal is declared extinct, we generally think that's the last we'll ever see of them. And most of the times this is true, but there are a han...

The Discoveries That Prove Humans Are Absolutely Insane

28 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Humans are a wild wild bunch, I am sure you know that, and even so I guarantee that these archeology discoveries will have you scratching your head on...

This Island Turned Animals Into Monsters

21 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's just something about islands, that goes hand in hand with spookiness, especially when it comes to animals. And of all the islands to have ...

Prehistoric Animals Scientists Got Horribly Wrong

14 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To figure out what animals millions and millions of years old were like through some bones, is breathtakingly difficult, which is why it may not be su...

The Giants Found In The Deepest Parts Of Our Oceans

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hey everyone! Made a poll a few weeks back about uploading bonus episodes about animals that still exist, and over 90% of you said you wanted it - so ...

When Florida Was On The Wrong Continent

01 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Turns out that Florida man wasn't always Florida man

Extinct Animals The Polynesians Saw

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Would you believe me that during the crusades, their still existed on earth not one but multiple giant animals that were the stuff of legends, and the...

The Strangest Extinct Creatures Ever Found

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Extinct animals are weird, but only handful are weird enough that we have no clue what in the world they are, despite our current technology and knowl...

The Earth's First Known Plague

10 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you've watched some of my recent videos, then you'll know that the neolithic kind of sucked, it just wasn't fun, well turns out that somehow it was...

The Ice Age That Killed Over 80% Of All Life

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all heard of the Dinosaurs extinction, and if you're a slight nerd like me, then maybe the Permian’s great dying too, however do you kno...

When A Sea Dried Up And Left Hell Behind (literally)

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a place where the deadliest waters laid, and then imagine that in the exact same spot the deadliest land also rested, well turns out that real...

The Worst Deaths Ever Discovered In Prehistoric Humans

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If pain was a business, then humans have created a monopoly out of it, just ask our early ancestors, who sadly for them, have left us some pretty pain...

We're Evolving Backwards

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

300,000 years isn't exactly a long time in the grand scheme of things. And yet it was long enough for us to go through some pretty peculiar "changes"....

Japan Once Had Real Kaiju

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today Japan is known for anime, good food, and everything kawaii, but once upon a time not only was it not kawaii, it was also one of the worst places...

The Most Brutal Human Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Life hurts, but seems like in the past it hurt so so much worse... and these real skeletons prove it.

The Largest Animal To Ever Walk On Two Legs

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sauropods were the largest dinosaurs to ever live... but what was the second largest? Its an animal you have likely never heard of AND it also happens...

Antarctica Before It Froze

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Antarctica today is ice on ice on ice, with a few penguins sprinkled in. But once upon a time, not only was there no ice or snow, yet palm trees, gian...

When Evolution Made The Same Animal Twice

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you take a look through time you will come to the realization that we are all the same, but different... let me explain.

The Extinct Animals The First Humans Saw

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ever imagined what the very first modern humans would have saw on their journeys in late Pleistocene Africa? Well imagine no further, here's the answe...

When Australia Had A Sea

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To keep it short... Australia has no chill and had no chill...

The Forgotten Prehistoric War That Killed 19 Out Of 20 Men

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

7,000 years ago something happened that was so severe that it permanently left a scar within our DNA...

The T. Rex's Savage Older Brother

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all love and know the T. rex, but have you ever asked yourself, where did it come from, and what ruled before it? Well.. here's the answer.

The Most Brutal Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist...

When Thalassophobia Kept You Alive

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

The Giant Humans That Hunted & Cannibalized Neanderthals

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

The Only Predators To Dominate The Dinosaurs

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When you think of the biggest and baddest group of animals to ever live, you likely imagine the dinosaurs. And why wouldn’t you? They were the large...

The Hidden Timer That Kills Every Species

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which be...

26,000 Years Ago Europe Was Hell

21 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

The Moment Thalassophobia Was Born

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pret...

Earth Once Had Hobbits & It Absolutely Sucked To Be Them

08 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally aw...

The Time When Sharks Were The Least Of Your Worries

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

The Worst Time To Have Ever Been A Human

23 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.

The North Pole Had Its Very Own ‘T. Rex’

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Santa Claus had some competition during the Late Cretaceous...

If This Prehistoric Hyena Was In Lion King Scar Would've Won

09 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Lion King, Scar used an army of Hyenas to try and uh..."remove"...Simba, but as we know, this didn't turn out so great for him, well I am here to t...

The Closest Life Has Ever Come To Going Extinct

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Of the 31 extinctions (give or take) that life has faced, you may have only been taught in school about the kt event, aka the extinction that took out...

The First Super Predator To Emerge After The Dinosaurs

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Before the killer whale, or the barracuda, or even the great white, there was the king of lizards, or rather a whale, that looked more like a mosasaur...

The World's Most Terrifying Island...

19 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hey you! Yeah you, wanna take a sweet vacation to an Island? I got the perfect place for you...

Neanderthals Were Absolute Freaks Of Nature

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harder, better, faster, stronger....Daft Punk really just made a song about neanderthals.

The Scariest Animal During The Jurassic Wasn't A Carnivore...

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation was one of the most brutal places to ever exist. You had giant sauropods and cannibalistic theropods roaming abou...

When Krakens Were Real

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Arrrr, here be krakens matey! Well, not really, but kind of... especially when you look at prehistoric waters.

The Only Time In History That Water Was Safer Than Land

21 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You know how I've reiterated that you shouldn't get into the water, no matter how bad things get on land, well... there is ONE exception to this rule....

Extinct Animals The Ancient Romans & Greeks Saw

14 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ancient Greeks & Romans did a lot during their times, spreading far and wide, which also led them to seeing a lot too. These sights included l...

How Long Did The Dinosaurs Actually Survive After The Asteroid?

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

People often ask about how bad the asteroid that struck the dinosaurs was, or what would happen if it hit earth today, but no one's really asked just ...

The Worst Creature To Run Into During The Ice Age

31 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Ice Age was no doubt one of earth’s most questionable phases, being a very brutal time that led to brutal animals, and sometimes these animals w...

If Jaws Had Been A Whale

24 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jaws, the most iconic shark film of all time, is likely the source of thalassophobia in millions of people worldwide. And it's not hard to see why, ca...

This Was The Real Planet Of The Apes

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Quick, someone tell Caesar

This Prehistoric Ocean Was Thalassophobia On Steroids

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you thought Jaws was scary, wait until you see what prehistoric sea monsters lurked in the depths of this ocean...

The Strange Dinosaurs No One Talks About...

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dinosaurs in general are pretty weird, but just how weird did they get? Well it turns out, pretty dang weird...

The Whale-Sized Dinosaur That Used To Roam America

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can it get any more American? Supersized, comeback story, the name - Alamosaurus has it all!

The Prehistoric Snakes That Would’ve Given Titanoboa Ophidiophobia

03 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Titanoboa ain't top dog anymore

The Brutal Endings Of Four Recently Extinct Animals

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everyday it's estimated that over 100 species die, that's quite a lot, but let's face it most of these species we never hear of, so we don’t really ...

The Spinosaurus Had A Twin Brother

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I wonder who was the favorite child...

Extinct Animals The Native Americans Saw

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

10,000 years ago of all kinds of titans roamed America, and I mean ALL KINDS, we're talking giant beavers, mammoths, wolves and more... Thankfully for...

This Killed All But 1,000 Humans 900,000 Years Ago

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our ancestors had it ROUGH. On the bright side, there was a good chance you would've been the world's best at something...

The Only Dinosaur Known to Have Injured A T. Rex

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Not so tough now are you tyrant king" circa 66 Mya

The King Kong Insect Scene Wasn’t Far From Reality

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you hate bugs, or any other type of creepy crawlies, you probably shouldn't listen to this

Africa Was Once Ruled By Bears

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yup, your reading the title right, Africa wasn't always the land of giant cats, rather big fuzzy wuzzy bears.

Prehistoric Dolphins Were Absolutely Terrifying

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Flipper wasn't so nice and wholesome back in the day. For some reason it seems like every animal we all adore was at one point quite monstrous as ...

The Giant Frog That Probably Ate Dinosaurs

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Everything was messed up and more dangerous during the Mesozoic. You had theropods, titanic sauropods, fortified ankylosaurs, giant crocs, and frogs. ...

The Worst Period To Time Travel To...

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

150,000,000 years ago the Earth was a completely different place. Dinosaurs roamed the lands, pterosaurs ruled the skies, and all manners of nightmare...

Extinct Animals The Ancient Egyptians Saw

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When people think of Ancient Egypt, we often think of mummies, pyramids and hieroglyphs, in other words, the human-y things. But did you know that des...

The T. Rex’s Brutal Asian Older Brother

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During the Late Cretaceous, a giant Tyrannosaur lumbers about looking for its next victim. It has one of the most powerful bites ever seen and outsize...

Prehistoric Australia Was Pure Nightmare Fuel

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve probably heard that the country down under, Aka Australia, is the land of nope. Well, its kind of true, as Australia does have way more letha...

The Largest ‘Dog’ To Ever Walk The Earth

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cats vs Dogs - a debate as old as time itself. Unfortunately for dog lovers, felines always seem to have the upper hand when it comes to size. But onc...

Why Birds Rule The Sky And Pterosaurs Went Extinct

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Birds and Pterosaurs...they both flew and they both had beaks, but only one made it out of the late cretaceous. What gives?

The Human Species That Built Houses 1,750,0000 Years Before Us

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It may come as a surprise, but the first human species to build proper houses was not us, Homo Sapiens, but instead another species of human that live...