NOVA: Life's Rocky Start (2016)
• January 13th, 2016 • 0h 54min
Documentary, History
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Four and a half billion years ago, the young Earth was a hellish place-a seething chaos of meteorite impacts, volcanoes belching noxious gases, and lightning flashing through a thin, torrid...
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