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Earth Before Humans

Earth Before Humans

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Earth Before Humans travels through deep time to explore the worlds that existed before our species. Each researched episode follows one turning point in geology, climate, evolution, or extinction, from the first oxygen in the atmosphere to ancient seas and asteroid impacts. Evidence, uncertainty, and changing scientific interpretations are explained in clear documentary stories. Earth Sciences Science
Episodes
  • The Great Dying: Earth's Largest Mass Extinction

    The Great Dying: Earth's Largest Mass Extinction
    27 Sep 2026
    About two hundred fifty-two million years ago, ecosystems collapsed in oceans and on land with a severity unmatched by any later mass extinction. The event is called the Great Dying, but the name can hide its most important feature. This was not one instant of disappearance. Inside this episode: - Recognizing A Biological Boundary - A Volcanic Province Of Continental Scale - Warming Multiplies Problems - Oceans Losing Breath Sources include peer-reviewed Earth-science research, official scientific institutions, and the episode's linked source record. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow Earth Before Humans for more researched journeys through deep time.
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    8 min
  • Pangaea: How a Supercontinent Assembled and Broke Apart

    Pangaea: How a Supercontinent Assembled and Broke Apart
    27 Sep 2026
    Pangaea did not appear when continents slid together like tidy puzzle pieces, and it did not break when one crack split the planet. It was assembled through a long sequence of collisions and dismantled through a long sequence of rifts. The supercontinent is a story of moving plates, vanished oceans, mountain belts, and climates transformed by geography. Inside this episode: - Reading Continents As Moving Pieces - Assembly By Closing Oceans - One Ocean, Enormous Distances - The Stress Of Staying Together Sources include peer-reviewed Earth-science research, official scientific institutions, and the episode's linked source record. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow Earth Before Humans for more researched journeys through deep time.
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    8 min
  • The First Forests: When Roots Remade the Land

    The First Forests: When Roots Remade the Land
    27 Sep 2026
    A forest seems like scenery until it does not exist. Before trees, riverbanks lacked deep root networks, soils were thinner, and tall canopies did not divide sunlight into layers. During the Devonian Period, plants assembled the first forests and began engineering continents in ways that reached from local streams to the global carbon cycle. Inside this episode: - Before A Forest - Gilboa And A Surprising Tree - Roots Become Geological Actors - Rivers With New Boundaries Sources include peer-reviewed Earth-science research, official scientific institutions, and the episode's linked source record. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow Earth Before Humans for more researched journeys through deep time.
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    9 min
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