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Horizon tells amazing science stories and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Horizon: 2002-2003

Horizon: 2002-2003: The Day the Earth Nearly Died

04/11/2007

The Day the Earth Nearly Died

2002-2003

BBC Two - Horizon, 2002-2003, The Day the Earth Nearly Died

Palaeontologists ask what wiped out all but five per cent of life on Earth 250m years ago.

Documentary about palaeontologists who believe they have discovered what caused 95 per cent of life on Earth to be wiped out 250 million years ago.

Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaeontologists in Greenland investigate.

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