Where To Stream NOVA Season 40 Episode 16
Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Life Explodes
- Aired April 17, 2013
- 60 Min
- Rated 6.5
- Number 266 Of 294 Rated Episodes
How did life storm the beaches and dominate planet Earth? Ancient Australian fossils offer clues in "Life Explodes." Half a billion years ago, Australia was still part of the super-continent Gondwana. The oceans were teeming with weird and wonderful animals, but the world above the waves remained an almost lifeless wasteland. All that was about to change, though. Host Richard Smith introduces Earth's forgotten pioneers: the scuttling arthropod armies that invaded the shores and the waves of...