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Australia's First 4 Billion Years - Season 1 Episode 1 Awakening

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What can Australia reveal about how Earth was born and how life took hold? Join NOVA and host Dr. Richard Smith as they journey back to the very beginning of the Australian story in "Awakening." The first stop is Western Australia, around four and a half billion years ago, where we encounter an Earth shortly after its fiery birth. Hidden in the red hills of Australia are clues to the mysteries of when the Earth was born, how life first arose, and how it transformed the planet. Experts unveil how the earliest forms of life-an odd assortment of bacterial slime-flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, sparking the biological revolution that made animal life possible. It is the beginning of the great drama of life on Earth.

First Air Date: Apr 10, 2013

Last Air date: May 01, 2013

Season: 1 Season

Episode: 4 Episode

Runtime: 55 minutes

IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1.00 users

Popularity: 1.292

Language: English

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