A Tour of Earth's Ancient Supercontinents

Remember when the Discovery Channel used to make docos this good? This is actually incredible. Thank you

Imagine a crack forming and slowly growing at about the rate of a growing fingernail and it grows grows and becomes the Atlantic Ocean. Nuts

All well-deserved compliments, but no mention of the real star, writer and researcher, Leily Battison. Absolutely tops.

Dear Leila: You are a wonderful script writer and dedicated researcher! Thank you for a wonderful program.

Dude I can't believe this is done better than any network over the last 15 years, and with a budget I can only imagine is a fraction of a percentage of what they have to work with. Liking and sharing every video I can, cuz I wanna see what this guy can do on a big boy budget

The scary thing when thinking about these supercontinents is that the other side of the earth was just a massive ocean.

The animation around 21:00 suggests that India was attached to Asia from the get-go. India was attached to today's Antarctica and Australia and collided with Asia!

Your series of videos are wonderful. Thanks for your hard work in getting these together. If only the internet were around when I was a kid 50 years ago and learning about biology and geography!

This channel is hugely underrated. This by far some of the best work I've seen in a long time, and it's not even a major network production. I wish discovery and history went back to shows like this, it's blinding. I feel privileged to watch these videos as they're uploaded, and I hope as a creator you get a lot more notoriety and acclaim for your work. Thank you so much!

Great video, thanks. Poor Wegener, he was ridiculed for his Continental Drift Theory during his lifetime, and his ideas were not vindicated until after his death, when the mechanism responsible for his observations, Plate Tectonics, was discovered. I trained as a geologist in the 1980s, and some of my older professors weren’t fully convinced of PT, although it was taught in every class.

This makes David Attenborough happy. Spot on work.

I found this totally captivating and I'm a scientist! A perfect blend of technical information mixed with history. This is an excellent video for a junior high school earth science class. I guarantee it would hold the attention of students and stir a myriad of questions and derivative thought. My compliments to the author and narrator.

Don't usually comment on documentary content, but this series is truly something special. You've covered a swath of topics with uncommon depth and context and made them feel alive with your presentation style. Thank you so much for these. Can I make a suggestion? The relative scale and position of time periods this covers can be difficult to visualize in a simple text-only title format. (There can be a lot of numbers to keep track of.) You could introduce subjects overlayed as a block on a horizontal geologic timeline chart, that would be zoomed in or out of or focused as needed, kind of like a clip in a video editor timeline. It doesn't need to have fancy animation or anything. It would make contextual understanding much simpler! On another note, I also made some earth-from-space VFX footage some years back I'd happily donate if you would find it useful in your b-roll. Looking forward to more of this series. To Leila, Pete, David and all, keep up the incredible work. <3

This channel is awesome. Reminds me of the national geographic in the 90´s

Well, this was really well done! I love the text, so well written, the narration complementing it masterfully,the pace, just about right, the subjects, the graphic images—I can go on and on. This was very well received by me. Thank you to everyone involved in its creation!

I'm so glad I found this channel, being able to see the Earth's history thru these well presented documentaries is a privilege.

Content like this makes me feel connected to Life, the Universe, Everything...

History of The Universe and History of The Earth, back to back. Life is good and nothing hurts. As usual, your content is better than what major networks pass for documentary these days. Thank you ❤

This channel is a much needed throwback to when documentaries were about the information they contain rather than the scenic shots and how epic a voice the narrator can attempt to do.

Enjoyed the Magellan connection neatly weaved in after the sponsorship announcement 😀👌