The Great Dyings

"FIVE TIMES DURING COMPLEX LIFE'S HALF A BILLION YEAR REIGN, THE FORCES OF NATURE HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST IT"

Life is a fragile thing. It changes and adapts so specifically to survive in the environment it's placed in. This ability to adapt is called evolution, and it's the reason that life has endured for the past few billion years. But evolution takes a long time, so when environments change too quickly for the inhabitants to keep up, the result is a drop in population or at the worst… extinction. And sometimes these changes can be so big that they affect the entire globe. Leading to some of the most catastrophic events in our planet’s history… mass extinctions. Content creator Angel of Death explores the five mass extinctions and the effects they had on life on earth in this five part miniseries.

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First Aired

2023-11-04
Last Aired

2024-02-10
Creator

Angel of Death
Genre

Documentary
Seasons

1
Episodes

5
Status

Returning Series
Language

English
Network

Keywords:

paleontology mass extinction evolution life on earth

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Season 1

1. The Chilling Tale of the Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction

445 million years ago, the first mass extinction froze and suffocated the inhabitants of the Ordovicia...More

445 million years ago, the first mass extinction froze and suffocated the inhabitants of the Ordovician globe.Less

10mins 2023-11-04

2. The Strange Story of the Late Devonian Mass Extinction

Approximately 375 million years ago, a mysterious extinction began which would rock the Devonian earth...More

Approximately 375 million years ago, a mysterious extinction began which would rock the Devonian earth to it's core.Less

12mins 2023-11-17

3. How the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction Almost Killed Life on Earth

Despite life's many trials, it has always managed to pull through. But there was one time when it alm...More

Despite life's many trials, it has always managed to pull through. But there was one time when it almost didn't. 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, life came the closest it ever has to being wiped out completely. This is the story of the true Great Dying.Less

15mins 2023-11-21

4. How the Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Gave Rise to the Dinosaurs

Welcome back everyone to the Great Dyings, a five-part video series on the five mass extinctions. Las...More

Welcome back everyone to the Great Dyings, a five-part video series on the five mass extinctions. Last time we explored the most deadly extinction event in the history of life: the Permian-Triassic mass extinction that ended the Paleozoic era and began the Mesozoic era with the Triassic period. Today, we will explore the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction, which ended the Triassic on the Triassic-Jurassic border. While it is a relatively unknown extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction is incredibly significant since it paved the way for the age of the dinosaurs.Less

17mins 2023-12-28

5. The K-Pg Mass Extinction: The Day the Dinosaurs Died

Around 201 million years ago at the end of the Triassic when the rise of a new lineage of animals woul...More

Around 201 million years ago at the end of the Triassic when the rise of a new lineage of animals would mark the beginning of over 130 million years of peace and prosperity. A world untouched by climate change, tectonic processes, and extinctions which was allowed to prosper under the rule of some of the most powerful and well-known prehistoric beasts ever known… the Dinosaurs. But if there's one thing that we all know about good things, it's that they are never meant to last. 66 million years ago at the end of the Mesozoic, a cataclysmic event would change the world forever, ending this age of peace and the age of the non-avian dinosaurs…Less