What was the Earth like during the 5 Mass Extinctions ? | History of the Earth Documentary

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🌍 Life.
Life is a natural phenomenon known today exclusively on Earth.
Life is characterized by the ability to reproduce identically, the presence of water, a metabolism and an ability to maintain physicochemical parameters.
The Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. No form of life inhabits it in its primitive form. It does not look like the planet we know today. Covered by a thick, extremely hot atmosphere, the Earth has an orange hue. Its surface is totally unrecognizable. Everything is so quiet .... so empty.... so silent....

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💥 The Story of Life:
- Over time, the Earth cools. The water contained until then in its primitive atmosphere passes to the liquid state, the hydrosphere appears. It starts to rain. Water fills the depressions and the oceans are formed.
Life appeared on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, about 1 billion years after its formation. At the beginning in the form of simple unicellular organisms, they evolve in an aquatic environment and are small in size, about a few tenths of a millimeter. Little by little, the cells group together and move closer together. They absorb sunlight, water and gas. They develop and invade the sea bed. In several million years, the cells perfect themselves, and gather. They will form multi-cellular beings of various shapes and sizes, larger than the unicellular ones, a single nucleus not being able to control a too large quantity of cytoplasm. Multi-cellular organisms see their cells associate in tissues which will allow them to accomplish functions.

540 million years ago, a real explosion of diversity occurred, the Cambrian explosion. The ideal conditions are met for the evolution of many species of marine animals. The oceans were filled with living creatures similar to jellyfish, shrimp and worms. Some species kill each other and get bigger and bigger. From the abyss to the surface of the water, the aquatic world is teeming with life. Green seaweed grows in the shallow waters and will evolve to become the first plants to grow on land. Mosses cover the land areas.

Today, our planet has an extraordinary richness and diversity of animals and plants. And yet, the history of life is not a calm one. The latter has not been spared and it has undergone great upheavals having each time consequences on its evolution. Today, the forces of nature seem calmer and the Earth seems to have found its balance. And yet... A species is wiped out from the planet every 20 minutes. The equivalent of seven soccer fields are deforested every hour.
After the five great cataclysms that led to the five greatest mass extinctions, it would seem that the Earth is once again entering a brutal phase of upheaval in the climate and the composition of life. But let's go back to these periods of change that were decisive for the evolution of the fauna and flora as we know it today on our planet.

We are in the second of the six systems composing the Paleozoic, the Ordovician which lasts from - 488 million years to - 443 million years. This new period begins following the Cambrian extinction, probably due to an asteroid impact. At the beginning of this period, life existed only in the sea, a continental and shallow sea. The animal world was dominated by trilobites and brachiopods, which had a great evolutionary success in the Paleozoic. On land, it is nothingness, oxygen is rare, neither plants nor animals can develop. The supercontinent Gondwana includes all the continents of the southern hemisphere and is surrounded by the ocean Panthalassa in which all living species are swarming.
More than 490 million years ago, before the Ordovician, the atmosphere was strongly filled with CO2 which induced a greenhouse effect and consequently very high temperatures. The oceans reached up to 45 °C.

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🎬 On the program today:
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 04:54 - 445 million years ago: Ordovician extinction
- 17:45 - 360 to 375 million years ago: extinction of the Devonian
- 28:46 - 252 million years ago: Permian extinction
- 39:00 - 200 million years ago: Triassic extinction
- 53:05 - 66 million years ago: Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction
- 01:04:52 - 2023: Towards a sixth extinction?

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Hats off to the camera man for making it back in one peace

Ono
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(Anytime the earth seems to be recovering)
Lava: SO I HEARD YOURE THROWING A PARTY I WASNT INVITED TO???

emilymk
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What was it like during the 5 mass extinctions? It was something to die for.

NiftyShifty
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It taking 3 million years for a mass extinction is a wild stat. One day we very well may be in a video about “life during the 6th mass extinction”

TheCradM
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The Great oxygenation of the really early years were probably as close as Earth came to life dying out.

garybobst
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Based on this video, I am guessing paper straws will make little difference in the grand scope of life.

mdfenn
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The Permian Extinction was triggered by rapid global warming. Oceans turned pink, everything died. Just thought it was worth remembering

c.rutherford
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Most experts agree: life began 4 billion BP (before the present, ) not 3.5 billion years BP

oobrocks
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Best antidote for insomnia ever, Thanks!

bhimasolberg
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Man this guys voice is the fixer from cyberpunk edge runners. I’m positive this is Faraday

matattackinit
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There are probably many forms of life throughout the universe but because of the vast distances and time scales involved (plus the fact that we will probably be extinct within the next billion years due to the sun getting bigger) it is doubtful that we will ever interact with any of them. 😢

coling
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Good documentary...it is a pity that the music volume fluctuates that much as I like to watch documentaries at night to help me sleep

Ahonya
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There ain't no way this happens on only one planet. There's something in the chemicals that triggers all this life.

phil_
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If it blames global warming for everything, I’m gone!

erikpreston
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Am I the only one who heard the Forest Gumpian pronunciation of the narrator? Very informative though

MA-buoq
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You said in the ordovician extinction was gamma Ray but only one study has said this and most say it was a slow cooling

stucar
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just amazing to see big rocks in the nearby woods. Probably brought there by the ice

-Gunnarsson-
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Yeah the P/T extinction almost saw the end of life on Earth and it took 5-10 million years after for it to recover to any decent level. It makes the K/T extinction of the dinosaurs look somewhat tame.

DylansPen
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Uh what about the great oxygen catastrophe when 99% of all life died

gamer-ehkk
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Here's what i learned:

1. Life is cheap.
2. There's no bearded white man in the sky protecting humans, we are only 1 of billions of species.

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