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Crawling Out Of The Water Was An Evolutionary Accident

Season 8 Episode 4 | 8m 19s

It’s beginning to look like our success on land, and that of all tetrapods, from frogs to dogs to dinosaurs, was just a lucky side-effect of fish trying to stay fish.

Aired: 10/20/25
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