NOVA: Life's Rocky Start

NOVA: Life's Rocky Start (2016)

January 13th, 20160h 0min

Documentary, History
81%

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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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