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Animal Armageddon Episodes | Season 1 | |
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Death Rays
Four hundred and fifty million years ago, a deadly burst of gamma rays triggered the first mass extinction in the history of planet Earth. The ozone layer was blasted apart, powerful ultraviolet rays from the sun poured in unchecked. The climate was utterly ruined and soon the Earth plummeted into a long, torturous Ice Age. Animals in the ocean were decimated by this horrific disaster and the hunters now became the hunted. Eighty-five percent of animal life - accounting for two-thirds of all species - was wiped out... but all was not lost. Miraculously, the disaster brought hope and renewal.
Hell On Earth
The Earth of 377 million years ago was consumed in a volcanic apocalypse caused by a "superplume." Immense volcanic eruptions poisoned the atmosphere, blotted out the sun and caused countless other side effects that resulted in mass death on an unprecedented scale. Life itself was driven to the brink of annihilation. The first large fish to venture onto solid-ground - our ancestors - were hit hard. But remarkably life found a way to survive even though the Earth itself seemed set against it. When the dust settled, the first amphibians crawled out of water and inhabited the land.
Doomsday
Sixty-five million years ago a comet the size of Mount Everest struck the Earth, toppling the kingdom of the dinosaurs in a mere 24 hours. The next 24 hours unleashed a punishing onslaught of destruction that swept the globe: a shockwave of vaporized rock, a devastating magnitude 13 earthquake, tsunamis hundreds of feet high and a lethal rain of flaming rock debris. In an instant, the kingdom of the dinosaurs crumbled. But their demise actually benefitted one kind of animal... our ancient ancestors, the mammals. The Earth was now theirs for the taking.
Panic In The Sky
The impact of a massive comet or asteroid 65 million years ago, which many scientists believe caused the end of the dinosaurs, was just beginning. As the dust settled, the survivors awakened to a drastically different and highly unstable world. For the dinosaurs, it was the day of judgement... wave upon wave of catastrophe crashed over the dinosaur kingdom, like Biblical plagues: scorching heat and drought followed by blistering cold and acid rain. The 150 million year reign of the dinosaurs was over and those left behind had to pick up the pieces. Improbably, it was the meek that inherited the earth as tiny mammal scavengers, our own ancestors, arose as the survivors that would build tomorrow.
The Great Dying
What would it take to exterminate life on Earth? 250 million years ago... it nearly happened, the result of a volcanic apocalypse unlike any ever recorded in history. This is the worst catastrophe life on earth has ever endured. Who will survive?
Strangled
A mass extinction 200 million years ago allows dinosaurs to assume the dominant role.
Fire And Ice
Giant mammals like the woolly mammoth die out during the Ice Age.
The Next Extinction
What will the mass extinction we might be experiencing today look like in the future?
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