History of the Earth 

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the amount of research and time put on this video

0:10 starting a water vouper 4:40 first snowball earth event 5:31 the end of first snowball event 6:20 beginning of the boring billion 6:37 beginning of the supercontinent columia 6:54 oceans turn purple. 7:56 oceans stop turning purple 9:21 second snowball earth event 9:34 the end of second snowball earth event 10:25 beginning of supercontinent pangea 11:20 last ice age

This is beautiful. Really makes you think of how old and precious the Earth is.

i love this video, it's not only relaxing, but also very good!, also can we just appreciate how much effort he put into this masterpiece?

Very detailed and revealing piece about deep time and life on Earth. A really nice addition to this would have been the average distance to the Moon along with it's relative size. The Moon was about 25% closer during the Great Ordovician Biodiversity event with proportionally strong tidal forces on Earth

Wow, just the most amazing rendering - greatest story ever told. Wish this had been available 35 years ago when I was a geology student, waited a very long time for this, thank you😊

This is absolutely outstanding. You must have put an astonishing amount of time into it. I'm glad I found this because I am teaching Earth History right now and I'd love to send this out to my students to watch. Thanks for an incredible piece of science and art!

Oh my! The way you visually organized the information in chronological order is amazing!! Absolutely fascinating! I loved this video!! Without a doubt it's my favorite video from everything I've seen on BRvid!! Congratulations and thanks!!!

You have no idea how many times I have watched this video. It is incredibly well made and I enjoy watching it every time! Thank you for making this video!

The early stages of the Earth are so weird, like any alien astronomer might observe it and just see a random blue planet, without any knowledge that within it are loads and loads of single-cellular organisms, which would eventually become something incredibly complex

This is so amazing! Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this video! No fancy animations no distractions just clear concise information and interesting facts. Best video of this kind on BRvid.

Thank you Algol for an invaluable work! I can't stop rewatching this video. Could you please provide an "Events document" as you did for "History and Future of the Solar System" video?

Just a reminder that in a 10 minute video of Earth’s history, humanity is only there for half a second.

I LOVE that you included the temperature too! You really went above and beyond 👍🏻👍🏻

It’s so cool to see how our amazing planet formed and evolved for the years

Favorite video, right here. The movement of everything and changes to the world, as well as the music, it's mesmerizing! Great work, Algol!

I find it quite fascinating also how the planet still manages to regulate its temperature with very little fluctuation (on a greater scale) despite the sun constantly getting hotter and hotter. Makes me wonder how long this can continue into the future as the sun gets even more luminous.

Every ice age ever 4:29 Start of Huronian Ice Age 9:21 Start of Sturtian Ice Age 9:32 Start of Marinoan Ice Age

Absolutely, utterly fascinating. This is superbly well done. I can't imagine how much time it took to put this together, but please know that every single moment of your effort is appreciated. I literally have goosebumps.

An impressive piece of work. There is so much data that I will need to go over it frame by frame. Very well done.

Awesome! Thanks so much for this. One personal wish: would be wonderful to have the correspondance between the appearing landmasses and today's places. Like, main cities, some countries...

Pangea Break down 10:49 North America and Eurasia gets separated. 10:51 North America Breaks off. 10:52 Antarctica, Australia and India Drifts away from Africa and North America. 11:00 Antarctica, Australia and India Drift away from Each other. | South America away from Africa, Leaving no Supercontinent. 11:16 A piece of Africa gets slightly breaks off making Saudi Arabia. Continent Collisions 11:13 India Collides with Eurasia, forming Himalayas. 11:18 It doesn't really count as a Collision but South America connects with North America's Tail.

I love this video and enjoy watching it. I do want to point out marsupials would have had to evolve before 55 million years because they are found in Australia and North America and would’ve had to evolve and disperse at a time when both continents were connected crossing Africa/Antarctica land bridge 125 million years ago. Likewise same goes for the American Pawpaw and Australian fingersop which would’ve traveled across Gondwana before the breakup.

As a person who loves science, this is magnificent.

We're pretty lucky to be alive in a time where the continents are mostly coherent, imagine if we had to evolve on one big worldwide archipelago.

Its so cool to see what all the land was like through all of Earth's history!

The formation of the ozone layer during the Ediacaran era was the most important event for life on Earth. The evolution of life has greatly accelerated since then.

Спасибо автору! Это самое лучшее видео про дрейф континентов, которое я только видел! Но есть один минус. Я бы хотел, чтобы вы показали ещё будущее.

Для тех, кому нужно. Кому не нужно, уходите. 0:14 Hadean 0:54 Archean 4:24 Proterozoic 9:35 ediacaran 9:50 Cambrian 10:00 Ordovician 10:06 Silurian 10:11 Devonian 10:21 carbon 10:31 Permian 11:10 Paleocene 11:11 Eocene 11:15 Oligocene 11:17 Miocene 11:20 Pliocene 11:21 Pleistocene and Holocene.

Crazy to think so much of what we know of Earth history (dinosaurs, extinction events, continental formations, mammals, insects, birds, humans) happened in the equivalent of the last hour of the last day on a calendar. I think Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains it like that.

Phenomenal, the amount of research required for this was probably uncountable. Very unique, I look forward to seeing your future works!

It's suspicious that the land breaks apart during the Huronian Glaciation then comes back together for the (not so) Boring Billion. Might that be from those glaciers transporting crust all over the place, making it look like the land broke apart for a while? This and the other reconstructions on this channel are the most fascinating videos I've ever seen.

This video is really awesome! What animation software or programming software is used to make the map projection method to change this effect? Is it GIS or adobe? Thank you very much. :D

Awesome presentation work! Now... at ~750 Mya (for instance): even though there had already enough O2 dissoluted in the ocean to raise, develop and spread through the entire planet the pluricelular ediacaran biota, and ocean surface released (as it does so far) O2 to atmosphere (via their interface)... the atmospheric O2 level remained mere "1%" by then and steadily for thousands of hundred years? 🤔

I’d be interested in a speculative evolution of an alternate timeline where oxygen never became as prevalent as it is today and remained around 1-5% of the atmospheric makeup. What life would have evolved in such a nitrogen-rich environment?

0:01 Algol Intro 0:07 Pretext 0:14 Warning 0:18 Starts 0:20 Formation Of The Moon 0:21 Formation of primordial soup 0:25 the earth is getting cold and Appearance of water and mineral 0:35 First life and tectonic 0:44 The water is green 0:47 Late Heavy Bombardeament begins soon more

0:00 Formation of the Earth 0:20 Formation of the Moon 0:33 Earth cools down 0:34 First evidence of life 1:07 Late heavy bombardment ends 1:37-1:48 First ice age 3:00 Land forms 7:47-9:52 Snowball Earth 9:52 Cambrian explosion 10:14 First plants 10:14-10:20 Devonian period 10:20-10:22 Devonian extinction 10:25 First plants 10:30 First insects 10:37-10:38 Permian period 10:38-10:41 Permian extinction 10:41-10:42 The time it rained for 2 million years 10:42 First dinosaurs 10:42 Triassic period 10:42 Triassic-Jurassic extinction 10:42-10:47 Jurassic period 10:47-11:09 Cretaceous period 11:09-11:10 extinction of the dinosaurs 11:17 First mammals 11:20 First humans 11:20-11:36 Holocene

Also love the constant timestep. For the first time actually felt how close we are to the dinosaurs and their extinction...

I have to admit I was impressed with how this video shows how the continents were formed and everything else that happened on Earth but one thing I'm confused about is if science was accurate if this actually happened.

As someone who lives on the sun and I witnessed with happen, I can confirm this actually happened 4.5 billion years ago

What a wonderful job. Congratulations to everyone involved in the production of the video.

amazing, channels and videos like this would have made getting my geology degree easier back between 2005 to 2008! In gratitude!

0:15 First Apart of Earth 4:29 Snow Might Comes 5:31 Red Earth 6:21 Blue Lonely Empire 9:19 Snow II 9:36 Final Becoming an Earth

Went all over Google trying to find out what colour the sky was when the ocean was green only to come back here and realize you’ve included that in the animation as well

I would not be surprised even if it took a whole year to make this video. Great quality.

This is one of my favorite videos on BRvid! I only wish it could somehow be side by side with great extinctions & abrupt changes in dominant species as that might help clarifying some misconception about climate changes.

I always return here. I love this video:. the timeline, music, information, the sound of collisions, etc. Great job!

Until now I never realised that life literally had to exist for billions of years before even going multicellular. Wow.

This video is 11 minutes long. All of human history occurs in less than a blink of an eye. Crazy.

This is literally an amazing video, props to whoever made this!!!

Hello Algol, may I ask what the outline or halo around the planet represents? It starts off yellow then turns light blue? Also, thank you ever so much for creating this video, so much information in such a clear, easily digestible manner! Makes one want to learn more.

Я не знаю английского, просто наслаждаюсь видео. Хоть как, но мне хочется перевести, сделать всё, чтобы узнать побольше и распространить это видео среди тех, кто знает русский язык. Спасибо автору за проделанную работу!

I would love to see another version of just everything after the final banded iron formation, ten times slower. There's too much happening to take in.

I have always loved your supercontinent videos, but this takes the cake!! Oh my god! This climatologist wants to give you a massive hug.

This takes me back :,(

Insane how multicellular life is such a small proportion of life of Earth's history and a comparatively recent development.

Es una recreación maravillosa, muy ilustrativa, Pangea, mar de Tetis, nivel de oxígeno, y nos dice que estamos viviendo en el último segundo del día.

Great job! This is hypnotizing, can spend hours to observe the world and all specs at a specific time, just great!

It is so weird seeing this and learning about a time before dinosaurs, it would be hard to imagine but this helps

Starting Timestamps: 0:01 Intro 0:07 Pretext 0:14 Evolution of the Earth Legends: Red: Eruption Events Orange: Extinction Events Yellow: Impact Events Green: Biological Events Dark Green: Tectonic Events Violet: Miscellaneous Events Timestamps: Eon: Hadean 0:19 Formation of the Earth and the Moon 0:27 Latest appearance of Water 0:36 Earliest date of First life 0:50 Late Heavy Bombardment begins 0:54 Formation of Magnetic Field Eon:Archean Era: Eoarchean 1:07 Late Heavy Bombardment ends ✧MORE COMING SOON SO LIKE✧

0:14 Earth's creation. 0:17 Hadean Eon begins. 0:20 Earth goes below 1000 degrees Celsius. 0:23 Primordial Soup forms (super-heated since it's 630 degrees Celsius). 0:35 First lifeforms. 0:47 Earth goes below 100 degrees Celsius (and remains so ever since). 0:54 Archean Eon begins. 3:15 first ice caps. 4:24 Proterozoic Eon begins. 4:26 Oceans turn red. 4:40 First Snowball Earth; Paleoproterozoic thermal minimum -50 degrees Celsius. 5:30 First Snowball Earth ends; Proterozoic thermal maximum 50 degrees Celsius. 6:16 Oceans turn blue again. 6:54 Oceans turn purple. 7:08 roughly 800 million years of stable climate (temperature average is 12 degrees Celsius). 8:34 1 billion years ago. 9:19 Second Snowball Earth; Neoproterozoic thermal minimum -50 degrees Celsius. 9:30 Second Snowball Earth ends; Neoproterozoic thermal maximum 50 degrees Celsius. 9:32 Third And Last Snowball Earth; final thermal minimum of -50 degrees Celsius. 9:34 Third And Last Snowball Earth ends; final thermal maximum of 50 degrees Celsius. 9:50 Phanerozoic Eon begins. 10:38 Mesozoic Era begins; Phanerozoic Thermal Maximum (35 degrees Celsius). 11:09 Cenozoic Era begins.

9:30 Wow things changed VERY quickly at this point, it’s wild The temperatures swung back and forth wildly and oxygen SHOOTS up, it’s so cool.

*Я аж расплакался от настольгии, это было так давно. В том время еще даже динозавров небыло и церера находилась за 100 световых лет от земли. Тогда еще я был маленьким*

The is wonderful! It would be nice to have an estimate of atmospheric pressures at various times, too.

Einfach nur großartig! Das ist wissenschaftliche Präsentation auf absolut höchtem Niveau. Vielen, vielen Dank!

Finally I can tell what the Archaean and Proterozoic eras and the Proterozoic periods have been based on Or at least the milestones of each era and period

Some people think that geology is boring. Some pepole don't know that 2 bilion years ago there was a *literal nuclear reactor in the middle of a lake in Gabon* that stayed active for *thousands of years*! This video is some of the top tier stuff on youtube. Edit: fixed a typo

Nailed it, bro! Whoever made this deserve appreciation. Thank you for this wonderful video.

Wow, just wow!! Could you believe that enormous time scale we are witnessing here. 😮

hats off to this guy for going back in time and reshaping the world to look like that

Algol, another question. What is the meaning of the green circles on the surface, right at the beginning of the video, after Theia impact and before the formation of the first dry lands? Thank you!

Kinda crazy how we can all remember the second before we were born- the absolute darkness and then suddenly our first memories came to us. Little did we know all of this happened in the blink of an eye.

I closed my eyes for one millisecond and missed half a million years

I thought nothing would mindblow me more than those videos about the magnitude of the universe, but ironically a video about earth might just have done it. It's just incomprehensible how every single moment, everything we learnt... Makes up for not even a second in Earth's history.

One of the best videos on You Tube. Just felt, someone gave me knowledge and I felt more complete.

Wow, this is a lot of information combined into one video. Impressive!

10:40 - 11:19 Pangea (240 mya) to World map 0.0 mya Pangea Super continent appearance and break apart 10:27 Formation of Pangea 10:40 Pangea 10:51 Pangea break apart 11:19 world known now

It’s fascinating on how the Cambrian explosion didn’t happen until near the end of the video, just showing how old the Earth really is. And to think about it, all of human history occupies one frame in this entire video, if that. Edit: Also depending on how the sun reacts during its final years, Earth could either be in the middle of its life or in its infancy, and Earth could become a lifeless, dull orphaned planet for the eons following the Sun’s death.

This is such a treasure trove of information! Thank you for working so hard on this and for making it available to us!

Amazing: designed extremely well and very useful - Thank you!

This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen I couldn't believe how amazing it is when I first watched it thanks ❤

Praise to the cameraman for going back in time and recording the history of earth

0:24 Earth's atmosphere formed, although its atmosphere is yellow due to the heat. 1:50 Its atmosphere has reached orange because the Earth is cooling down. 2:17 Earth's atmosphere has reached Dark Pinkish-grey. 2:30 Earth's atmosphere has reached purple (Almost blue!) 3:15 Finally! The atmosphere is blue like it is now. 4:28 Earth: What's happening to my oceans? Is it turning into blood? 4:40 Venus: What's happening to Earth's polar regions? Mars: It's turning white. Earth: What do you mean? -- oh I get it! My Huronian glaciation is happening! Sun: Earth, why are you frozen? Earth: It's not a phase, mom! 5:30 Earth: Yay I'm unfrozen! 6:18 Yes my oceans are turning to saltwater! 6:54 Earth: Is my oceans turning to venom? Me: No, you are rich in Sulfur, allowing your Sulfur and green bacteria to thrive around your equator. 9:20 Not the Sturtian glaciation! I wish I hadn't have any ice ages! 11:01 Earth: Oh yes. Oh yes. I can't wait for my present day!

That video just showed me that regardless human activity on the planet, it goes through temperature changes on its own. I knew that but seeing it here visually was brilliant to watch

Imagine how fresh the air was back then

2:57 oxygen 4:26 red ocean 4:39 first glaciacion 6:17 blue ocean 9:19 second glaciacion 9:33 oxygen level rising

Так хорошо показано как менялась земля. Спасибо

It occurs to me that the water creatures we supposedly evolved from may not have had a choice to evolve on to land if that ocean floor evolved into a beach or a desert.

one of my favorite topics, and this channel is full of it! you deserve a sub.

The lack of things happening for 90% of the video vs the sudden burst of stuff at the last minute makes me truly understand how much we don't know (and can maybe never know)

Absolutely amazing. Someday, if people have way more resources, it would be interesting to add 1-3 little icons that are drawings of whatever species just evolved. Like, cells first, then one plant and one animal symbol, once it gets to that point. It's hard to pause and read the text over and over, although I am absolutely going to do that because this video is so chock full of information! Thank you for creating this!!!

Wonderful work! Very informative and awe-inspiring. I would ask what is supposed to represent the dark equatorial band that is shown in the first four minutes or so. Oh and the bright band that appears after the Huronian glaciation.

The particles that compound our body already was in the earth and got all the way to reach you through history.

Respect to the cameraman for going back in time to show us this

I’d like to see one like this for the last million years.

Shoutout to the cameraman for recording this sick timelapse!

Really puts into perspective how short our time has been here compared to the big picture

Великолепно!

This taught me more history about Earth than any history teacher can

0:18 : Earth/Terra’s formation (A bunch of floating debris crash together forming what we know as Earth) 0:19 : The Moon/Luna’s formation (A planet known as Theia entered the solar system around 4.6B years ago, but left orbit and crashed into earth. The leftover debris formed the moon.) 0:36 : Indirect evidence of first life (Indirect evidence points to life starting on earth as soon as earth became habitable.) 0:48 - 1:08 : Late Heavy Bombardment (A wave of asteroids that would crash into earth around the Hadean eon.) 2:11 : Vaalbara (The first supercontinent) forms (Vaalbara was the largest landmass at the time, although today it would be consider a large island, somewhat like Long Island.) 3:01 : Ur forms (Ur was a mash of Vaalbara and other islands. This supercontinent stayed intact until the breakup of Gondwana 165M years ago.) 3:17 : First ice age starts (The Pongola Glaciation event was the first ice age, caused by a rapid increase of oxygen in the southern hemisphere.) 3:38 : First ice age ends (The oxygen levels decrease slowly, until the icecaps melt.) 3:47 : Kenorland forms (Kenorland is a mash up of a bunch of islands, with 2 separate halves. This was the 2nd shortest lasting supercontinent, beat by Gondwana.) 4:30 : Oxygen Catastrophe (This event is a threat to all types of life at the time. This rapid rise of oxygen made the oceans rust and turn red, and later would cause the longest ice age in history.) 4:40 : Huronian Glaciation (The longest ice age in history, the was the 2nd one since the formation of the earth, and was caused by the oxygen catastrophe as the remaining methane began to cool down and make the earth freeze.) 5:30 : Huronian Glaciation ends (The longest ice age in history had ended. This was because of the oxygen levels decreasing due to the fact that the earth was producing more nitrogen.) 5:41 : Atlantica forms (Atlantica formed from the leftover broken cratons of Kenorland, which at this time had been broken up for about 600M years already.) 6:20 : Oceans return to a more normal color (Ocean stop rusting lol💀) 6:27 : Columbia forms (Columbia was the first true supercontinent, and was about the size of Asia (maybe larger). It was formed from the collision of Atlantica and Nena.) 7:28 : First algae (Algae blooms become abundant around this time.) 7:54 : Breakup of Columbia (Idk what to say about this one really lol) 8:17 : Keweenawan Rift (The largest known failed rift. If this rift was successful, it would have torn apart Laurentia and Rodinia would have never formed.) 8:34 : Formation of Rodinia (The 2nd largest supercontinent known to date. This supercontinent consisted of 2 islands, Laurentia and Australia.) 8:59 : Land plants diverge (Wow, that's a lot of water!) 9:17 : Breakup of Rodinia (Australia fused with northern Laurentia and split north and south Laurentia. This drift would cause both snowball earth events.) 9:20 - 9:30 : Snowball Earth (Sturtian Glaciation) (The first of the 2 worldwide glaciation events in the late proterozoic. This gave the earth at the time the name "Snowball Earth") 9:33 - 9:35 : Snowball Earth (Marinoan Glaciation) (The last of the 2 worldwide glaciation events. The end of this event would have the most rapid oxygen rise in history (1% - 6% in 9.5MYA) and also would mark the end of the Cryogenian period.) 9:30 : First animals (The first complex non-microscopic multicellular life appears around this time.) 9:40 : Formation of Pannotia (Pannotia, meaning “South Land”, are the 2 halves of Rodinia moving southward, hence the name “South Land”) 9:51 : A New Eon (The end of the Ediacaran period marks a new eon, the Phanerozoic.) 10:10 : First Tetrapods (The Devonian period marks the point when animals were dwelling on land.) 10:20 - 10:38 : Karoo Glaciation (This glaciation, although not as serious as others, would be the 2nd longest glaciation ever. As well as a rapid increase of oxygen, to the point of the highest oxygen in the atmosphere ever (32% in the Carboniferous period.)) 10:26 : Formation of Pangea (Pangea, is the largest known supercontinent. It would split into Gondwana and Laurasia, but not before staying together for another 145 million years.) 10:28 : Synapsids and Sauropsids diverge (Synapsids (proto-mammals) and Sauropsids (early reptiles) would diverge.) 10:36 : First warm-blooded animals (in general) (Warm-blooded animals are thought to evolve and come around during the end of the Permian Period.) NOT FINISHED