Schicksalsplanet - Katastrophen der Erdgeschichte
This 5-part documentary series reconstructs major events that shaped our world and shows how life evolved—despite apocalyptic catastrophes.
Overview
This 5-part documentary series reconstructs major events that shaped our world and shows how life evolved—despite apocalyptic catastrophes.
Episodes
1. Dramatic Birth
Shortly after the formation of our solar system the potential for life begins when Earth collides with another protoplanet. Somehow Earth survives and a new world is created: the moon. Without the moon there may not have been life on our planet.
2. Snowball Earth
Throughout its history Earth has continuously fluctuated between "greenhouse" and "icehouse." An icehouse phase known as "Snowball Earth" is the most extreme period of cold our planet has ever witnessed with ice encasing Earth from the poles to the equator. Somehow new life manages to survive.
3. Great Dying
540 million years ago the ancestors of modern complex organisms suddenly emerge in the Cambrian seas. Evolution progresses and even manages to make the leap onto land. But 250 million years ago massive volcanic eruptions trigger the most severe mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
