The Earliest Years Of Earth's 4.6 Billion Year History

This Documentary covers the history of our planet and the most ancient life on it during the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons (from 4.6 billion years ago until 500 million years ago). The Hadean Eon takes us 4.6 billion years back and tells the story of our planet's formation, appearance of the Moon, atmosphere, and water. The Archean Eon tells about the earliest life on Earth, its ancient continents, and how bacteria transformed our planet's atmosphere. The Proterozoic Eon covers catastrophic global glaciations known as the Snowball Earth, the appearance of eukaryotes, as well as first plants and animals. It also tells about mysterious organisms from the Ediacaran period.
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[@user-ze9jw8zu2x]

The Ediacaran Biota is my favorite! So mysterious! I liked when you called them creatures of "uncertain origins."

[@fr57ujf]

This is by far the best nature documentary on the formation of Earth and early life that I have ever watched. Extremely well-organized, answering questions that would occur to the curious listener, and full of detail rather than drama. I learned quite a lot. Congratulations to the authors and to the narrator. The narration sounded very natural and I wasn't bothered by the music.

[@petergriffin383]

Agree 👍

[@mcpr5971]

Its a college textbook piped into TTS

[@howtheuniverseworks2620]

This documentary excels in its detailed, well-organized presentation of Earth's formation and early life. It’s educational, engaging, and the natural narration complements the content perfectly. Highly commendable work!

[@donhillsmanii5906]

MUSIC IS TOO DAMN LOUD YO HAD TO FIND ANOTHER DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL… damn didn’t mean to yell

[@3runjosh]

🤣

[@creativecapricorn9261]

Lower the Music Volume...! Be professional...!

[@FingersKungfu]

This is a wonderful and highly educational documentary. Each hypothesis is discussed in both of its strengths and weaknesses. It shows that our current knowledge isn't fixed in the stone and new evidence could change what we learned in school.

[@nahuiendorfina]

Loved it, want the next part!

[@neilgallie3306]

Great modern documentary, very detailed.

[@brucebradburyIII]

The music is way too loud haha

[@Joshua-dj5lb]

your hearing is way to bad...haha.

[@brucebradburyIII]

@@Joshua-dj5lb 😂

[@justicewillprevail1106]

Background music so loud all I hear is the speaker mumbling... can't make out what he is saying at times.

[@robertlight2731]

Best one yet

[@lanceuppercut3835]

Great doc!!!

[@santasa8888]

Perfect documentary, summarize most important moments of Earth's history including early life, and is very current in regard to a theories and hypothesis (especially with regard to HLB, orbital migration and water). Just perfect, even though I wish it's a bit longer and ambient music is bit lower.

[@hourz]

Yo, turn down the music some I want to hear the information you researched....

[@raymondmedina1375]

Fantastic documentary! Well done! Simple, educational & enriching! Thank you!

[@johng9889]

To the producer: I WANT to watch your video. I really do. But I see the first comment about loud unnecessary music, and I instantly move on to another video. At least ofter a 'quiet' alternative. Thank you

[@matthewmasood]

maybe you should just not listen to what other people say. wait too much i know

[@erikrichardgregory]

Just sent this educational material to my son. Entertaining learning, nice graphics presentation, looks like cable-channel quality. Look forward to more

[@jordanchristeson2872]

This is just spectacular.

[@ellenbryn]

Wow, this documentary may not be as slickly produced as some of the big Nova and BBC specials, but it covers a huge amount of both familiar and cutting-edge development of esrth/biosphere right up to the threshold oof the Cambrian explosion. There's even little hints of some thing that I think is going to revolutionize the study of early life: the role of fungi, which have too long been overlooked. .I wish my planetarium director grandma and geologist grandpa had lived long enough to be amazed by some of these recent discoveries. It's been fun watching the impactor theory, late heavy bombardment, snowball earth, great oxidation event, early supercontinents and ediacaran fauna go from new discoveries and controveries to scientific consensus with a great deal of additional detail and understanding or, in a few cases, they've been superceded by newer discoveries.

[@mcpr5971]

Its a textbook narrated with TTS

[@BojanPetrovic-fm1ud]

Best explanation, tanks

[@danielandersson2146]

Well made documentary, felt like a professional production! Didn't find the music too loud, but can understand that it is too loud for those with a poor sound system.

[@jp27whodey31]

It's amazing how much we were taught in school just 30 years ago is now considered to be wrong.

[@A.D.540]

science keep improving the better

[@jeffslist6878]

Yeah. That's why I'm suspicious of a lot they say on these videos too

[@bertharius9518]

​@@jeffslist6878 Yes, you have to sift the wheat from the chaff. YT is full of utter garbage - it's the nature of such a platform, but for example 'Astrum' is pretty good.

[@h2ophilter]

@@jeffslist6878 science adjusts as knowledge and observation improves. there is nothing wrong with that process. Religion hasn't changed in thousands of years and yet it claims to always be the absolute truth.

[@jeffslist6878]

@@h2ophilter what's religion got to do with these videos?

[@halwarner3326]

I love this video. The music is the best part.

[@FGBFGB-vt7tc]

Love it, for it shows the history of the ideas and evidence that points to our actual understanding. It does not shy away from dated theories but rather explains how Scientists moved on from that into current understanding. Science is a method, not a monolithic conclusion. This documentary shows that in the best way possible.

[@marclongoria3021]

Background music and noise makes this documentary unwatchable.

[@bertharius9518]

Yet another documentary with loud, unnecessary music.

[@indecent0079]

I’m sure it sounds nice in a Dolby home theatre set up 😁

[@IamBananas007]

Same.. I want listen to this st bed time but the volume is all over the place and loud bangs happen after I fall asleep...

[@BigSho0ter]

@@indecent0079sounds incredible with the AirPods 2 pros or whatever they’re called. Incredible audio tbh

[@drconflict629]

They either block their content in your region, or upload badly mixed trash people can barely watch. Spark sucks.

[@maxplanck9055]

I agree, the worst offenders are documentaries with ridiculous guitar melodies, poor music choices ruin even a good documentary ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@michaelsteven8892]

Most Interesting & Informative ! The earth has undergone several changes during its evolution till finally it has become a wonderful home of mankind ❤ ! What a true friend ! The moon is formed out of solidification of the earth's lava & is fixed at a distance to it due to the strong gravitational force of the earth ! ❤

[@ohyeayea6692]

Spectacular, an all encompassing video…

[@alhorne6643]

The music is annoying.

[@markbreslin5325]

Thanks!

[@Rambam1776]

If you want to get rid of the music and then re-release this, let me know. I'm not wasting my time with this god-awful soundtrack

[@Itsgonnabemayy]

I’m sure they are working on that as we speak….

[@Random_Games601]

Hey I noticed that you made a mistake and left a error message on the video on 14:50 minutes. It was annoying

[@fatihsahin5255]

As I wanted to read the comments before watching, I saw lot of people commenting on the music. Unfortunately couldn’t focus on the video just because of that. Perhaps re-uploading with lower music? 🙏🏻

[@fletcherchristian1611]

I agree with you, I would hardly call it music though a cacophony of noise perhaps? !

[@godisfake78]

I'm almost positive that we have discovered, in other solar systems, two planets inhabiting the same orbit.

[@kylepasta]

Muchos Interestos

[@edwardallan197]

Looked interesting. But the music is just too overbearing, with nightclub bass. I can't think & learn! I have missed a lot of science videos over this. Is it one production team, or a trend?

[@alistaircoull]

I hate AI narration

[@rickitynick4463]

Great watch.

[@3runjosh]

music seems fine to me - listening on desktop speakers. maybe headphones is bad for people.

[@warrenmullett]

Our planet is so special, rare , and it took an unimaginable amount of time to be created for us .. let’s make sure we enjoy and treat it better 😊

[@ingloriousbetch4302]

What's even more interesting, IMO, is we might not even be all that rare considering how many planets there are and how huge the universe is thought to be.

[@just_kos99]

Music's too loud, couldn't watch.

[@fletcherchristian1611]

👍👍

[@tb22k]

😅so interesting 🧐

[@pabloinla1]

So many new and interesting theoretical developments in this well made presentation. There are some better graphics, but there are usually budget constraints related to lacking those. We'll done.

[@ZahqiNazeer-se5js]

The Athena Planet Existed at a Higher Density Earth not this One. The theory comes from a diving, that wasn't aware of the multiple Earth Echoes Densities.

[@octavianova1300]

I for one support the nightclub bass on this video

[@KosmiekAltertainment]

i agree with other cmments. The music is horribly loud and makes this unwatchable. What a shame.

[@robshaw-hist-arch]

"Acritarch" does NOT mean "unknown origin". It means "confused origin".

[@mymother3203]

True story🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@peterclark6290]

For now... not consensus just more and more genius-level insights moving the goldposts. (delib typo)

[@CasualCatYT]

putting my comment here so I can look back an relearn stuff later on.

[@maugel0]

You were once a "Grypania spiralis"

[@WillArtie]

This was a great show, bur 32:33 is a bit worrying with a planet orbiting in the reverse direction!

[@jimmyjones3754]

Jupiter and Saturn reversed their direction AWAY from the sun orbiting more outwardly into the solar system 😉 I know I thought the same thing and had to rewind that part several times.

[@eyebeebak]

9:20 they disproved the Co-Formation theory because both earth and moon must be identical in chemical composition but they are NOT. But they agreed on the Giant Impact theory, a mars-sized planet Theia hit Earth to form the moon. Then earth moon must have the same chemical composition, right?

[@stargazer5784]

Had they formed together, the Moon would have likely had a somewhat more substantial iron core, which it doesn't. The basalts on it's surface are however, very similar to those found on the Earth. The Earth's iron core is also proportionately much larger than those of the other terrestrial planets, because it likely consists of both it's original core, and that of the impactor. The low density of the moon is another clue. Lighter crustal debris from the collision remained in orbit around the Earth, forming the Moon, while the heavier core debris from both bodies stayed behind. The Moon's low gravity, lack of a substantial magnetic field, and other factors, explain why if wasn't able to retain a substantial quantity of volatile elements and compounds. Because this all happened so long ago, and so much has changed on the surfaces of both bodies and the solar system in general, this whole idea will always remain a hypothesis, but it seems to be the best fit at the moment. Cheers.

[@eyebeebak]

@@stargazer5784 that makes sense. thank you for the explanations.

[@jackburton7062]

They have found huge chucks of the moon inside earth. Might have something to do with the strong magnetic anomalies under south America I think. Its been awhile.

[@HarrisonBurgeron-h9m]

The hubris of some people...Humans have no freaking clue as to what was going on over a billion years ago...we don't even know for sure what things were like a few thousand years ago!!

[@HumanBeanbag]

I love astrology

[@user-iv2iu2wf4w]

All of this wondering where water comes from. Its clouds!

[@djfull4442]

14:52 Premiere being Premiere

[@YogiMcCaw]

BG music is WAY to loid, Bro - and I'm a musician who loves psychedelic music. Go back in and cut it back. You'll get lots more 5 star reviews if you do, because actually other than that, it's a pretty good video that summarizes the science on these important subjects. And what is going on at 14:51 where we are shown a red screen informing us in 9 languages that the media is offline?

[@grahammelvin37]

Mercury is all thats left of Thea flung out after impact and captured by the suns gravity

[@thanhtan5736]

25/10/1994 0.25

[@christianadam2907]

Explain to me why you depict the orbit of Venus as retrograde (which it is not).

[@davidsouthwood5106]

This is the time of life ttat on the opposite teans try line

[@matthewdolan5831]

Thea integration into proto earth was a fusion event, not an impact. Need to tighten up the English.

[@robertl4522]

*LOUD NOISES*

[@HumanBeanbag]

What music? 😳

[@kbarrett63]

How many moons in the solar austen rotate at a rate that keeps one side always facing the planet?

[@karaDee2363]

No matter what, man does not know where life came from or How the Universe came to be in the first place, nor can they answer how all of the known elements or first single cells came to be. All these things were somehow created, which will never really be known because it goes Way Beyond our comprehension

[@spiglerlarger8496]

Please, documentary.off Earth I agree and accept the way it explain how water problem with water getting here by the comets. And then for how life begins on this Earth.❤🎉🎉🎉

[@brunodinis7454]

[Music]

[@alhorne6643]

Would have been good, but t😊hat godawful music....

[@maxplanck9055]

At last a documentary with something new to say about the earth’s formation ✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@maxplanck9055]

The late heavy bombardment was likely a reaction to the explosion from the proto planetary disc and sun formation, debris was sent to the heliosphere and rebounded and returned as bolides some hit planets many were vaporised by the sun✌️❤️🇬🇧

[@ZahqiNazeer-se5js]

The Living Earth Is, The Same Age Of Its' Living Heavens. 400 and 3 Billion Years Old. The Prior Living Heavens And Their Living Planet Formations, are Aeons, that are within the Strange Jewels And KeepSakes' Of IsReal.

[@johnsteichen5239]

This presentation has deftly avoided the Origen of life enigma. Where did the information come from or data that became encoded on the primitive RNA chains come from. Data and an interpretive mechanism was needed simultaneously for replications to occur. This appeared by 3.8 BYA. Far too fast to attribute to natural processes. That is the enigma that is stumping science. All they can say is they are working on it. Science of the gaps. What is the recipe for primordial soup ?

[@anupghimire3214]

This is really an interesting and fascinating to see how long we came and its frustrating to see the recent developments on the earth due to no brainer leaders

[@KyleLarsen-bw5hw]

This sounds great so far…

[@KyleLarsen-bw5hw]

Hmmm I’m getting the sounds though they aren’t great but aren’t loud either..

[@ZahqiNazeer-se5js]

The Lunar Formation was brought here, to replace the old One, That was bigger and caused too much inspired violence. The unstable emotional forms were bombarding the consciousness of the Planet's natives, having their consciousness pulled up.. It was replaced by the Advanced Race, that made the Nuclear Plants, Bombs and Big Machines, along with the Cities and Time Buildings, that weren't destroyed, during the last Time that, North America's Board Flipped and Amexum was all, that was left of North America. Now that's a nice Pop Up Book Feat of Skills.

[@noahward-r5x]

watching this while baked

[@waterthugs]

Complaining about the music? Really? Not that serious people. Y'all too funny😂😂

[@mbgrafix]

Our documentary filmmakers took cameras back billions of years to record the birth and development of our universe... ...and now, _we present that footage to you!_

[@ZahqiNazeer-se5js]

Using My new present Age of, My Living Consciousness, who can guess, the degrees of peripheral vision, that present day scientists, seem to have, by their estimates, on the Age of the Living Earth?,... 4.6 Billion year Sun? Just 100,000 years before the Earth? 7.8% Peripheral Vision, out of 100%, Which Is Perfect Perception.

[@benyoung1224]

Should prefix with “we think”

[@bertharius9518]

Don't you know what 'hypothesis' means?

[@benyoung1224]

@@bertharius9518 please tell me where it says hypothesis in “the earliest years of earths 4.6 billion year history”?

[@benyoung1224]

@@bertharius9518 🤡

[@mbgrafix]

@@benyoung1224 Check and _mate!_

[@peterclark6290]

@@benyoung1224 There will never be forensic evidence, because plate tectonics, water and life changes, etc: ergo hypothesis is implicit as it should be with all science.

[@jesuschristt7692]

Who cares? Earth is only 6000 years old,read the Bible and repent!

[@juliahyatt5838]

You're not just wrong, you're incredibly stupid! 🤪

[@cabbagehead8082]

They dont even know how humanity started. Don't be fooled into thinking they have a single clue about anything this long ago

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Absolutely wrong.

[@mbgrafix]

Wait a minute...you mean to tell me that this is not first hand video evidence?? But they sound so convincing... _it _*_must_*_ be true!_

[@BigSho0ter]

Holy jumpin’ you guys are dense

[@stargazer5784]

Religious zealots seek out these kind of videos so they can act like trolls and show their ignorance. Typical.

[@freedom_born]

Humanity is a long way from the formation of earth mate!

[@phillipkapler8319]

A worthy contribution to the library of earth history documentaries, but parts of the story here just don't work. The explanation for the origin of Earth's water is complete gibberish. I don't care how many narrators with British accents you queue up to spout such stuff (pun intended), it would remain absolute nonsense. At least this program doesn't try to slide the "comet and asteroid" delivery theory by us. If that one were true, all of the rocky inner planets would now, or at some point, have 75% of their surface covered with water - which did not happen. It's OK to just say "we haven't a clue how that came about", and move on with what you really can substantiate.

[@xitheris1758]

It's quite likely that all the planetary bodies of the inner Solar System had substantial amounts of water early in their histories, but over billions of years, geological and astronomical processes have left only the Earth wet. Due to sputtering from the solar wind, Mars lost most of its atmosphere and water to space. Although most of its water is gone, huge amounts of water still remain on Mars in the form of ice, permafrost, and groundwater. The composition of the Venusian atmosphere is an enigma, particularly the sheer amount of sulfuric acid it contains. The best explanation requires Venus to have started out as an ocean world. The Sun, like all stars, gradually brightens with age. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, and Venus receives about twice the sunlight that we do. At some point, Venus would have entered a runaway greenhouse effect. As its oceans vaporized, the water was mostly lost to photodissociation and sputtering. As the planet's crust was baked, it degassed both mineral-bound water and oxides of carbon and sulfur. What water remains on Venus is bound up in the sulfuric acid clouds that shroud it. The Apollo samples were limited to the Lunar surface at low latitudes. Having been baked, for billions of years, in constant vacuum and daytime temperatures over 100°C, it's unsurprisingly that the samples contain very little mineral-bound water. Global observations have revealed that with increasing latitude and subsurface depth, the Moon is actually quite rich in mineral-bound water, and underground ice is common near the Lunar poles. Mercury is underexplored, and it experiences even more extreme heating than the Moon. Despite this, high latitudes on Mercury have been shown to possess a similar gradient of mineral-bound water, with polar stores of subsurface ice. Despite being 71% covered in liquid water, the Earth has also lost a tremendous amount of its original surface water - mainly to sunlight and life. Like on Venus, water vapor in the upper atmosphere gets broken by UV radiation into hydrogen and oxygen. The Earth's gravity is too weak to keep a hold on hydrogen, so it quickly gets blown away into space. Unlike on Venus, autotrophic life breaks apart huge amounts of water. The oxygen gets dumped into the atmosphere as waste. Most of the hydrogen, however, gets metabolized with carbon dioxide to produce biomass. Inevitably, however, a small amount of hydrogen escapes into the atmosphere. In summary, Mars and the Moon are too small, Venus and Mercury are too hot, and even the Earth doesn't have what it started with.

[@ericwillis777]

Well that's it - lousy background and I'm off, not wasting my time with this punishment !

[@donhillsmanii5906]

So. Many. ADS.

[@ajsalt100]

God's handy work

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

Random chance

[@blitzchamp3854]

Thea is Mars. After hitting Earth it went further to its own orbit at present. Around 212.76 million km from the Sun... And that Icy Giant planet was not thrown out but it is planet X that scientist have been speculating all the time. It will return every 4.6 million years... 😉👌👌👌👍👍👍

[@FalconXE302]

I have an Hypothesis... "The early and late whatever it was, we have no clue what happened, but we're glad it did...!"

[@BigSho0ter]

That’s not a hypothesis

[@Duise-j9f]

Time for God isn't what it is for us 😊

[@mariogibbs9836]

Y’all complain too much. Just watch the clip or don’t watch it. Sheeesh

[@TWOCOWS1]

The graphics are pathetically wrong, in fact, pretty old in their information. very little science fact in them, and the data is from the 1970s

[@TubeOnRichard]

Prove any of it

[@ingloriousbetch4302]

What's your theory? Big sky daddy got bored and magicked it into existence and then went thru several oops stages until people ended up? Or are you one of those dinosaur deniers?

[@SPRDAVE]

BIGGEST ATHEIST FICTION SHOW I EVER WATCHED LOL

[@xitheris1758]

How would God have made the Earth if not by the laws that govern all His creations?

[@AdenScott-sc7wg]

The scientific method behind this information also created the technology of the internet and the device you are using to view it. If you cannot accept science, you should not be allowed to benefit from it. You cannot cherry pick which parts of science you want to believe in - it's all or nothing. Please cease and desist all use of technology and go and live in a cave.

[@Gregknows-uj8gg]

GOD created all. It might of taken a long time instead of the short days that we count. I know the Holy Bible says the Earth and the Heaven's and all the living plants and animals were made in Six days but those Days might not of been the same as hours. A day for GOD might be a Billion years for us. You all never mention the hand of GOD in the formation of Earth.

[@lucillasallabank]

Because there is no evidence of that.

[@Gregknows-uj8gg]

@@lucillasallabank have you not experienced a Miracle at some point? Where there was no other explanation except Devine intervention. I am betting almost everybody has at some point or another or will at some point.

[@Rambam1776]

Yes, God specifically created everything including you so that you could one day go on KZbin and annoy perfect strangers with bullshit and misspelled the word divine. Please do the rest of us a favor and go meet God immediately.

[@AdenScott-sc7wg]

There's a good reason for that. Science is about proof and you have none.

[@SPRDAVE]

ASTEROID HIT AND CREATED DINOSAURS ASTEROID HIT AND ELIMINATED THE DINOS A LOT OF MAYBES AND IFS A LOT OF SHIT TALK .

[@AdenScott-sc7wg]

That's how science works. It adapts to new discoveries, as opposed to believing fantasy stories dreamt up by primitive people who knew jack shit about anything.

[@Tomoraphor]

full of lies

[@bertharius9518]

and the 'truth' is....?

[@mbgrafix]

@@bertharius9518 ...NOT this video!

[@bertharius9518]

@@mbgrafix I'm guessing that 'Jesus' figures in your version of truth. Haha. It's certainly easier to deal with than scientific enquiry, which can be intellectually challenging at times. Oh well, go in peace.

[@stargazer5784]

​@@bertharius9518You've given a much more restrained response than I would have. Religious interpretations of science have, especially in recent years, have resulted in untold death and suffering.

[@AdenScott-sc7wg]

then go back to your fairy tales and stop bothering the adults

[@influencs.k.y6779]

fake

[@RagsHSC-7]

I tell you this and all earnest. You will have the answers when you come before God. He already explained it but if that's not good enough for you. He can tell you in person 🕊️❤️🕊️

[@Rambam1776]

Fuck God

[@AdenScott-sc7wg]

Your comments have no place here. You have no proof of any of your fantasy beliefs.

[@142chrisjake]

Stop complaining about the music for God's sake. You're getting a free documentary.

[@donhillsmanii5906]

And it IS too loud