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How did massive volcanic eruptions, inland seas, and land bridges pave the way for life?(Aired November 11, 2015)

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How did life emerge on our primeval continent? Why was North America home to so many iconic dinosaurs like T. rex? And how did a huge sea filled with giant marine reptiles end up covering Kansas? We tell the surprising intertwined story of life and the landscape in North America.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
05:08 When Dinosaurs Roamed North America
10:48 The Basis of Complex Life: Stromatolites
19:46 Diverse Dinosaur and Fish Fossils Found in Central Kansas
28:00 How Were Fossils of Marine Creatures Found in the Mountains?
33:40 Evidence of the Asteroid that Wiped Out Dinosaurs
44:58 History of Primates in North America

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20 Comments

@world_still_spins 3 years ago

Full length episodes of PBS and NOVA are always more enjoyable than partial clips, even if it is an old episode.

@LeviAvans 3 years ago

Doing a plant focused video here would be cool too. It would be interesting to see what kind of forests were around the planet. Or even maybe what the shallow seas were like.

@natfallout 3 years ago (edited)

My father recently found many ammonite fossils while at his construction job here in downtown Dallas Tx. He gave me a small one to keep and kept a bigger one for himself, it measures about 1 foot in diameter. I treasure mine to this day and always find my self going back to examine it! (:

@BlueBaron3339 3 years ago

One of the most muscularly charming hard science documantaries NOVA has produced. I loved it eight years ago when it debuted. And its wonderful that PBS is releasing their back catalog here on YouTube.

@Onetwothreefour. 3 years ago

Thank you for uploading these. These are all great.

@youngblood2 3 years ago

I watch shows like this a lot, and this one is very special!!!

@cdfdesantis699 2 years ago

Another good one from PBS Nova, as usual.

@PeteEllson5656 2 years ago

Excellent documentary So well done. And so educational.

@markblix6880 2 years ago

I bet that 14 foot long fish in Kansas is a state record.

@sumsara9255 2 years ago

Only 2 months old and it already needs to be updated. The White Sands National Park footprints are 21,000-23,000 years old, and therefore modern human ancestors obviously arrived well before 14,000 years ago (see 50:38). That's what I love about science - ever changing-ever learning.

@LukaszCantwell 1 year ago

Wish he was around decades ago, my life would have gone a different way much earlier than it occurred. He gives something to go for that's real.
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