Ancient Earth: Inferno Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
How did life bounce back after a cataclysmic extinction wiped out some 90% of all species?
252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on Earth. Follow scientists as they piece together evidence to discover how life survived and set the stage for a new dominant life form: the dinosaurs.
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Ancient Earth: Inferno Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on Earth. Follow scientists as they piece together evidence to discover how life survived and set the stage for a new dominant life form: the dinosaurs.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator 1] On Nova, Ancient Earth.
- [Interviewee] It's the mother of mass extinction.
- Something utterly catastrophic.
- [Interviewee 2] Much greater than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs.
- Now we finally know the culprit.
(volcano erupting) - We are finally able to piece together clues from this ancient crime scene.
- [Interviewee 3] We're talking wildfires, acid rain, deadly UV radiation.
This was hell on Earth.
- [Narrator] "Inferno" on Nova.
♪ Wish I could go back in time ♪
The Catastrophe That Killed 90% Of Earth’s Species
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An ancient catastrophe killed nearly all life on Earth - and an asteroid wasn’t to blame. (1m 34s)
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