The Complete History of the Earth: Everything Before the Dinosaurs SUPER CUT

Intro 0:00
Understanding Geologic Time 2:00
The Hadean Eon 3:52
The Archean Eon 8:40
The Proterozoic Eon 21:24
The Cambrian Period 34:46
The Ordovician Period 49:27
The Silurian Period 1:03:12
The Devonian Period 1:16:47
The Carboniferous Period 1:33:30
The Early Permian Period 1:51:39
The Late Permian Period 2:09:51
The Great Dying 2:30:15

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I was suffering from a bit of writers block some time ago so I decided to go to the comments section of some of my previous videos for inspiration on what to talk about. And of course I knew I could count on all of you! I started noticing a pattern in what many of you were asking for. Many people have requested that I broadly cover different time periods from Earth’s history… And that got me thinking.

That was so very long ago now.....

We began with our planets fiery birth before there was a moon in the sky of water on the ground. We saw like go from tiny microbs to taking over the oceans. and eventually crawling up onto land. And all the while life was constantly being reset by mass extinctions. Causing animals to have to adapt or die!

It is the greatest story ever told, and this is only just the first chapter! This video will show you everything that happened before the Dinosaurs took over the world!

Scotese, C.R., 2016. Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Ice Ages, (Modern World - 540Ma), YouTube Animation

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[claudiasmith]

As someone raised in a religious household and was only taught what the young earth creationists wanted us to believe, THANK YOU! My mind is truly blown. There was so much I didn’t get to learn. Finding this video is better than Christmas morning.

[joslynsorensen]

I don't understand why this video has become my "can't sleep" watch, but your voice has soothed me for countless nights over the last several months. Entertained me during my waking hours, too. I love your vids but man, I have really glommed onto this one. Thank you for all of your work!

[ArcticTron]

I like that you actually corrected the Dunkleosteus body length because that video was made before that paper came out that corrected its assumed body length.

[coreyhall]

Idk why, but out of all the species that died out in the late permian, the trilobites are always the one that dissapoints me the most. Those guys survived so long and through so much, they were little troops just chugging along. Wish they could've made it just a little longer to meet us. Or more accurately us meet them. They're also kind of adorable in some weird way

[kae]

The distant chanting of the cyanobacteria at the end of the Archean segment + the faint background music would be a hilariously great ambience video

[juphikie]

The fact that you went and modified the part about Dunkleosteus for this extended video is amazing, and shows this is more than just "Take the old videos and stitch them together"

[poogissploogis]

This video has become my comfort video that I listen to every night to help me overcome my insomnia and fall asleep. I love it so much

[LightBlueVans]

i love deep dives like this from people clearly passionate about the subject

[Macadune]

This is one of my top ten favourite YouTube videos of all time. Seriously, I can sit down for the full video and watch it repeatedly without getting bored.

[erinhowell]

Im a super fan of prehistory (before the dinosaurs). So much life and variety of just... what would feel like alien creatures. Its amazing!

[private]

I first viewed this video back in January or February. At the time, I lived a very day-to-day kind of life and never made the time to think too much about these things. This video changed that. I was so enamored and fascinated by how much we could say about the formation of our planet and life. Something inside me changed. I now have an entire shelf of books that cover the history of our planet, geology, and biology. I’m looking into going back to school and getting a degree. I want to be a part of earths story in some way shape or form other than through a passive existence.

Thank you for researching and publishing this video. It really is an inspiration.

[EksaStelmere]

The Great Dying in particular hit my younger self very, very hard. I attribute my learning of it to be one of the reasons I "sobered" up to mortality even in a family where tragedy was fairly common. Obviously it had no effect on my survivor's guilt, but it challenged the 11-year old me to truly absorb the definition of luck. It's been a painful ride for my human ancestors to make it to me, but something like the Great Dying just hit different in a way you don't really see outside of fiction.

[LMarti]

I'm laughing hysterically at the idea of someone watching this whole thing and being like "nah it's actually all 6000 years old"

[shadowphonix]

GET THE POPCORN! we're on a binge watch tonight

[williamreely]

"Earth lore" I'm going to use this to refer to my geology degree from now on, thanks.

[hurfhimself]

unironically one of the best paleo documentaries I've ever watched. great job on this, looking forward to your videos on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

[adamthespinygiant]

I have a Fan Theory: TimTim was the water molecule that Steve showed us in the Hadean Eon video. IT WAS

[stumpyale]

I love this entire series, and yes I sat here and watched all 2 hours over again even though I watched all the original videos when they were first released. I can't wait for the next chapter

[sithlordslim]

Thank you for this "Super Cut".
Being close to 50, I've finally had questions that religion and school couldn't answer, but this did.
The jokes in the video were on point, very entertaining.

[tehandroidmaster]

The algo recommended this series when you were on the Devonian period. I got hooked on all your other content, I've watched the series from the beginning, and the same for newer episodes as they came out. It blows my mind that an hour was dedicated to the Permian, looking at the supercut timeline. Forget the dinosaurs for a minute, I'm pretty sure epochs from the Cenozoic will end up being like 30 minutes to an hour long depending on how you split it up.

I'm so excited for what comes next! Keep up the great work dude. I seldom interact with content creators I enjoy out of laziness; your content honestly made me break out of that habit and do the whole like+comment thing.