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To understand where we came from, how earth, the solar system, the galaxy became what they are today, we need to understand the beginning of time. PNGs-CLgBfk pbs-eons-that-time-the-ocean-lost-almost-all-its-oxygen PBS Eons | That Time The Ocean Lost Almost All its Oxygen This is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years. H5XVxKNzhjQ pbs-eons-did-a-tsunami-swallow-part-of-europe PBS Eons | Did a Tsunami Swallow Part of Europe? 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DeHRDNRQhNg this-website-theme-hasnt-been-perfected-since-1996 This Website Theme Hasn't Been Perfected Since 1996 Watch as I show you how to recreate a masterfully executed magic wand effect from https://diagram.com. 70Qi4Nk3aJc pbs-eons-a-natural-history-of-mars PBS Eons | A Natural History of Mars While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door. QTK_bC00ilg pbs-eons-the-invisible-barrier-keeping-two-worlds-apart PBS Eons | The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real. 4XmFUWdgKWk pbs-eons-how-some-plants-survived-the-k-pg-extinction PBS Eons | How Some Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better. Juci-kAqjes pbs-eons-the-real-story-of-the-dodo-birds-extinction PBS Eons | The Real Story of The Dodo Bird's Extinction What’s the real story of the dodo? How did such a unique bird even evolve in the first place? And are we really responsible for its extinction? dVcneOQirfA pbs-eons-the-search-for-the-genes-that-make-us-human PBS Eons | The Search for The Genes that Make Us Human In the search for the genes that make us human, some of the most important answers were hiding not in the genes themselves, but in what was once considered genomic junk. pbXPqWGGQ5U pbs-frontline-911-the-man-who-knew PBS Frontline | 911 | The Man Who Knew When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill. yUgEtEIr_Gk pbs-survivor-full-special PBS SURVIVOR | Full Special SURVIVOR is more than the saga of a perilous journey. 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