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Shortly after the formation of the solar system, the potential for life begins when Earth collides with another protoplanet; Earth survives, and a new world is created: the moon; without the moon, there may not have been life on Earth.

Shortly after the formation of the solar system, the potential for life begins when Earth collides with another protoplanet; Earth survives, and a new world is created: the moon; without the moon, there may not have been life on Earth.

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S1, EP1 "Dramatic Birth"

Shortly after the formation of the solar system, the potential for life begins when Earth collides with another protoplanet; Earth survives, and a new world is created: the moon; without the moon, there may not have been life on Earth.

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S1, EP5 "Age of Humankind"

Shortly after humans appear, they become the dominant species on Earth, but face threats from both above and below -- volcanic eruptions and falling asteroids; now scientists around the world use the latest technology to mitigate future catastrophes.

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S1, EP4 "Doom of the Dinosaurs"

In the Triassic period, dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet for 150 million years; 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs vanished along with 75% of all species; experts use the latest scientific methods to discover what killed the dinosaurs.

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S1, EP3 "Great Dying"

540 million years ago, the ancestors of modern organisms suddenly emerge in the Cambrian seas; evolution progresses and leaps onto land; but 250 million years ago, huge volcanic eruptions trigger the most severe mass extinctions in Earth's history.

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S1, EP2 "Snowball Earth"

Throughout its history, Earth has continuously fluctuated between greenhouse and icehouse; an icehouse phase known as Snowball Earth was the most extreme period of cold the planet ever witnessed, with ice encasing Earth from the poles to the equator.

A reconstruction of events that shaped the world and shows how life evolved, despite apocalyptic catastrophes.
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