Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://gographicsoutput.com/video/4GJSQmYlBDq.html Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Nature’s Deadliest Mistake | The Archaeopteris Story | Paleobotany Gianni Boncompagni [1qo5i8mldXE] Health Updated on August 06, 2026 EDT — Published on August 06, 2026 EDT Tag: #Gianni Boncompagni, #weimar, #lsg vs csk, #rockies vs piratesThey ruled Earth for millions of years then vanished almost overnight.380 million years ago, the first forests covered the planet. Archaeopteris, Earth's first true tree, had built the world's first deep soils, reshaped rivers, and flooded the atmosphere with oxygen. Then something went catastrophically wrong. No asteroid. No volcano. The trees themselves triggered one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history and nearly erased all complex life.This is the real reason the world's oldest forests vanished.WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER How Archaeopteris built and then broke an entire planet Why the same roots that created soil also poisoned the oceans The Kellwasser Event: the mass extinction nobody talks about How an 80% drop in CO froze the Earth and erased the forests The chilling parallel between the Devonian extinction and todayCHAPTERS0:00 The First Forests0:44 A Geological Mystery1:04 No Asteroid. No Volcano.1:43 Meet Archaeopteris2:11 The First True Canopy2:44 A World Transformed3:00 The Roots That Destroyed3:47 Nutrient Flood & Ocean Choke4:30 The Kellwasser Extinction4:44 The CO Trap5:20 Global Cooling5:43 il messaggero The Forests Freeze 6:15 Engineered Extinction6:28 The brest vs strasbourg Carboniferous Rises7:48 Success That Backfired8:01 Written in the RockMORE FROM DEVONIAN BLOOMThis Fern Stopped a Climate Apocalypse Part 1 of the video topic: The Radical Roots That Gave Us Blue Skies Subscribe for more cinematic jaime pressly journeys into Earth's deep botanical past.#paleontology #preHistoricLife #Archaeopteris #Prehistoric #Evolution
Tag: #Gianni Boncompagni, #weimar, #lsg vs csk, #rockies vs piratesThey ruled Earth for millions of years then vanished almost overnight.380 million years ago, the first forests covered the planet. Archaeopteris, Earth's first true tree, had built the world's first deep soils, reshaped rivers, and flooded the atmosphere with oxygen. Then something went catastrophically wrong. No asteroid. No volcano. The trees themselves triggered one of the largest mass extinctions in Earth's history and nearly erased all complex life.This is the real reason the world's oldest forests vanished.WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER How Archaeopteris built and then broke an entire planet Why the same roots that created soil also poisoned the oceans The Kellwasser Event: the mass extinction nobody talks about How an 80% drop in CO froze the Earth and erased the forests The chilling parallel between the Devonian extinction and todayCHAPTERS0:00 The First Forests0:44 A Geological Mystery1:04 No Asteroid. No Volcano.1:43 Meet Archaeopteris2:11 The First True Canopy2:44 A World Transformed3:00 The Roots That Destroyed3:47 Nutrient Flood & Ocean Choke4:30 The Kellwasser Extinction4:44 The CO Trap5:20 Global Cooling5:43 il messaggero The Forests Freeze 6:15 Engineered Extinction6:28 The brest vs strasbourg Carboniferous Rises7:48 Success That Backfired8:01 Written in the RockMORE FROM DEVONIAN BLOOMThis Fern Stopped a Climate Apocalypse Part 1 of the video topic: The Radical Roots That Gave Us Blue Skies Subscribe for more cinematic jaime pressly journeys into Earth's deep botanical past.#paleontology #preHistoricLife #Archaeopteris #Prehistoric #Evolution