Inside the Chaos: The First Billion Years of Earth | How the Earth Was Made

Discover the violent and chaotic origin story of our planet in this full episode from Season 2 of "How the Earth Was Made." Travel back 4.5 billion years to witness the "Birth of the Earth," from a swirling cloud of space dust to a molten world shaped by cataclysmic cosmic collisions. Explore the...

44 min - Planet & Climate - HISTORY

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