How Life Survived When Earth Was Covered in Ice

Season 50 Episode 12

About the Episode

Seven-hundred-million years ago, ice threatened to make our planet uninhabitable, snuffing out new complex life forms. From this climate catastrophe, new forms of life arose, eventually leading to the living world today. But it was a close call.

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