Life and Death on Pangea

In January 2025, the PBS Eons production team visited our colleagues at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) to film segments for their series, Life and Death on Pangea. That visit is now available on PBS with the first two episodes of the series officially released at the end of July 2026.

In the first episode, host Gabriel-Philip Santos and Christina Byrd, Collection Manager of Vertebrate Paleontology at the MCZ, explore the deep-time ecology of the late Paleozoic and highlight spectacular Carboniferous plant fossils from HUH's paleobotany collection. The segment, which runs from approximately 5:40 to 7:45, showcases how these ancient plants help scientists reconstruct the environments that existed long before the supercontinent Pangea came together.

Watch here: https://www.pbs.org/video/how-the-formation-of-pangea-changed-the-world-life-and-death-on-pangea-ga6jxx/