PBS Eons has a new video. This is episode 2 of the 6 part series “Eons: Life and Death on Pangea”.

This is episode 2 of our 6-part series, Eons: Life and Death on Pangea. You can watch the whole series right now on https://www.pbs.org/eons or if you prefer to watch on YouTube check back here weekly for new episodes!

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?