When Land Was Deadlier Than the Oceans

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Tonight, we travel 250 million years into the past, to the final days of the Permian Period. This was the Lopingian Epoch, a time when Earth’s land became more dangerous than the oceans, and life faced challenges beyond anything we see today. Forests thinned. Rivers dried. The air itself grew harder to breathe.

In this gentle, cinematic journey, we explore how stable ecosystems slowly unraveled, how temperatures climbed past 50°C in some regions, and how creatures shaped by ancient climates struggled to survive. You will meet powerful gorgonopsians, tusked dicynodonts, armored pareiasaurs, and the earliest warm-blooded ancestors who clung to life through heat, hunger, and darkness.

We follow shrinking waterholes, vanishing insects, collapsing food webs, toxic seas, and the subtle signs that warned of a planet tipping out of balance. Then, we watch the first steps of recovery in the early Triassic, when tiny survivors began rebuilding life from the edges of a quiet world.

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