252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on Earth. Follow scientists as they piece together evidence to discover how life survived and set the stage for a new dominant life form: the dinosaurs.
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- [Narrator 1] On Nova, Ancient Earth.
- [Interviewee] It's the mother of mass extinction.
- Something utterly catastrophic.
- [Interviewee 2] Much greater than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs.
- Now we finally know the culprit.
(volcano erupting) - We are finally able to piece together clues from this ancient crime scene.
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