Earth’s Surface Used to Be Deadly… And It Will Be Again

The entire history of Earth, in one video.
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This Astrum supercut journeys through the history of our planet, from its violent birth, to its fiery death. We’ll explore Earth’s formation, how life began, the reign of the dinosaurs (and how it really ended), and find out what will become of our planet billions of years into the future, whether we’re here or not.

To those returning and new to the channel: This supercut video combines Astrum’s best videos about Earth’s history, plus new and updated content. We’ve edited this into a new seamless video, remastered in 4K resolution, and re-recorded the older voiceover to match the quality of the recent episodes.

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0:00 The Story of Earth
1:57 Formation of the Earth
4:16 Bombardment by Asteroids
14:10 When Did Life Begin?
19:05 Pale Orange Dot
22:13 Snowball Earth
27:37 Cambrian Explosion
30:43 Pangaea
36:42 The Great Dying
43:29 The Extreme Climate of Pangaea
50:48 The Age of Dinosaurs
57:31 Dinosaur Extinction
1:04:50 Who Survived?
1:11:14 The Last Ice Age
1:17:10 Woolly Mammoths
1:22:32 Giant Ground Sloths
1:29:23 The First Humans
1:38:36 The Next Ice Age
1:41:55 Earth’s Future
1:49:09 The End of Life on Earth
1:53:18 Goodbye Oceans
1:59:14 Earth’s Final Fate

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References:
“How the Earth and Moon Formed, Explained”, via uuchicago.edu https://astrumspace.info/earthform
“What is the Late Heavy Bombardment?”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/lhb
“The Origin of Life on Earth, Explained”, via uchicago.edu https://astrumspace.info/originlife
“Snowball Earth”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/snowball
“The Cambrian Explosion”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/cambrian
“Formation of Pangea”, via sciencedirect.com https://astrumspace.info/pangaea
“Earth’s Five Mass Extinctions”, via uox.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/massextinct
“The Triassic Period: The Rise of the Dinosaurs”, via nhm.ac.uk https://astrumspace.info/triassic
“Causes and timing of future biosphere extinction”, via hal.science https://astrumspace.info/biosphereextinction
“The distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited”, via harvard.edu https://astrumspace.info/futureearth

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Credits:
Writers: Jon McColgan, Nigel Code, Edie Abrahams, Chris Bartlett, Julia Masselos
Video Editors: Nathália Huzian, Matheus L. Heberlê, Drew Stubbs, Pavel Allsi, Frame Forge
Audio Editor: James Horsley
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designers: Peter Sheppard, Juane Dames
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Coordinator: Rose Unwin
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan

With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA

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