
What Earth Looked Like 400 Million Years Ago
Across the Devonian Period, life began expanding onto land in ways that permanently changed the planet. Tiny plants evolved into the first forests, fish developed the foundations of limbs, and the ancestors of all land vertebrates started a journey that would eventually lead to amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and humans.
This documentary explores the extraordinary world of the Devonian, often called the Age of Fishes, when ecosystems were being built almost from scratch. Discover the rise of armored predators, the appearance of Tiktaalik and other transitional fossils, the invention of limbs…
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