Ancient Earth: Life Rising Preview
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See how life made the leap to land, turning a barren landscape into a lush, green world.
For billions of years, life teemed in Earth’s oceans while the land was desolate and inhospitable. See how life made the leap to land, transforming a barren, rocky landscape into the lush, green world we call home.
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Ancient Earth: Life Rising Preview
Preview: Season 50 Episode 13 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
For billions of years, life teemed in Earth’s oceans while the land was desolate and inhospitable. See how life made the leap to land, transforming a barren, rocky landscape into the lush, green world we call home.
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- Our green planet wasn't preordained.
- It's the result of an immense struggle over millions of years.
- Planets transformed bare rock into life-giving soil.
- It creates one of the most bizarre prehistoric landscapes of all.
- [Interviewee] An alien world.
- Life and Earth, they're not separate entities, they're totally interconnected.
- [Narrator] "Life Rising" on Nova.
♪ Wish I could go back in time ♪
Giant Prehistoric Fungi Once Ruled the Earth
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Clip: S50 Ep13 | 3m 43s | Fossils show that millions of years ago, 20-foot-high fungi grew on Earth. (3m 43s)
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