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How did life survive on a planet covered in ice from pole to pole?
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole. How did life manage to hold on through this deadly deep freeze, find creative ways to bounce back, and thrive in the dramatically different world that emerged?
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Ancient Earth: Frozen Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 12 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole. How did life manage to hold on through this deadly deep freeze, find creative ways to bounce back, and thrive in the dramatically different world that emerged?
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Narrator] On NOVA Ancient Earth.
- People thought it was an outrageous idea.
- The planet completely encased in ice.
- Some of the deepest, most intense cold earth has ever experienced.
- [Scientist 1] Life survived events that scientists previously thought were unsurvivable.
- But for life to flourish again, we would need some kind of drastic change.
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How Life Survived When Earth Was Covered in Ice
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Clip: S50 Ep12 | 3m 6s | Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth was encased in ice. How did life survive? (3m 6s)
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