The Day The Earth Nearly Died (2002)

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 explain the answers.

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Jack Fortune

Narrator

A

Adrian Jones

Self

V

Vincent Courtillot

Self

G

Gregory Retallack

Self

P

Peter Ward

Self

P

Paul Wignall

Self

M

Michael Benton

Self

M

Michael R. Rampino

Self

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