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Season 50 Episode 13 - Ancient Earth: Life Rising
For billions of years, life teemed in the oceans of planet Earth while the land was desolate and inhospitable. So how did life make the leap to land? Scientists explore how some of the earliest life emerged and invaded a barren, rocky landscape, eventually transforming it into a verdant, green world. Gripping visual effects reveal an alien landscape dominated by towering fungi before the arrival of plants. Witness how the first plants made landfall and partnered with fungi to create soil that would sustain them. And discover how, once life emerged on land, it fundamentally altered the very ground it grew on.
Episodes in Season 50
London Super Tunnel
54 min
Star Chasers of Senegal
54 min
Ancient Builders of the Amazon
54 min
New Eye on the Universe
54 min
Weathering the Future
54 min
Chasing Carbon Zero
54 min
Saving the Right Whale
54 min
Hidden Volcano Abyss
53 min
Your Brain: Perception Deception (1)
54 min
Your Brain: Who's in Control? (2)
54 min
Ancient Earth: Birth of the Sky
54 min
Ancient Earth: Frozen
54 min
Ancient Earth: Life Rising
54 min
Ancient Earth: Inferno
54 min
Ancient Earth: Humans
53 min
Inside China's Tech Boom
53 min
The Battle to Beat Malaria
54 min
Lee and Liza's Family Tree
54 min
