Surviving Earth

The 'Great Dying' was the mother of all mass extinctions.

234 million years ago... in Earth's forests... after one million years of rain... it is the wettest time in the planet's history.

66 million years ago... The most well-known extinction event of them all.

94 million years ago, dinosaurs rule supreme on land, and, remarkably, in the oceans.

An eerie swamp forest, 305 million years ago, is home to giant insects, and wildly improbable 9- foot-long amphibians.

435 million years ago... Life has not yet gotten a foothold on land; but vast shallow seas teem with bizarre, breath-taking creatures.

We arrive in the Americas at a unique time: 2.5 million years ago, when the two entirely separate island continents are meeting for the first time.

12,000 years ago, at the end of last Ice Age, the Earth is warming.