Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide 🦕☄️ | Ep 2: The First Steps | ABC Australia

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Of all continents on Earth, none preserve the story of the formation of our planet and the evolution of life quite like Australia. Nowhere else can you simply jump in a car and travel back through the entire history of the world. 'Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide' takes you on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. Buckle up for a rocky ride down the Road of Time with series host Dr Richard Smith. Over four one-hour episodes, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and exploding asteroids. Epic in scope, intimate in nature, this is the untold story of the land Down Under, the one island continent that has got it all. So join the good Doctor for the ultimate Outback road trip: an exploration of the history of the planet as seen through the mind-altering window of the Australian continent.

00:00 | The Time Traveller's Guide Ep 2 intro
04:45 | The Ordovician, 488 to 444 million years ago
08:52 | The Silurian, 444 to 416 million years ago
18:54 | MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory Australia
25:29 | The Devonian, 416 to 359 million years ago
31:00 | Dr Gavin Young, Palaeontologist, Australian National University
32:34 | Associate Professor Kate Trinajstic, Palaeontologist, Curtin University
43:17 | The Carboniferous, 359 to 299 million years ago
45:48 | Lisa Worrall, Chief Geoscientist, Zeus Resources Limited
47:14 | The Permian, 299 to 251 million years ago
53:50 | "The bitter end for over 80 per cent of all species alive"

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