The Mass Extinction That Gave Birth to the Amazon
A rainforest that should never have existed became one of the most important living systems on Earth. 🌎
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs and erased much of the world that came before. Yet from that catastrophe emerged a chain of events that would eventually create the Amazon rainforest, a place so rich in life that it now holds roughly one in every ten known species on the planet.
This documentary follows that extraordinary journey across deep time. From the moment of impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period, through the collapse of ancient forests…
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