The Day The Earth Nearly Died

Some 250 million years ago, all but five per cent of life on Earth was wiped out in the greatest disaster our planet has ever experienced, yet the cause of this event has long remained a mystery. Palaeontologists in Greenland explain the answers.

• Nick DavidsonWriter
• Nick DavidsonDirector

• Jack FortuneNarrator
• Adrian JonesSelf
• Vincent CourtillotSelf
• Gregory RetallackSelf
• Peter WardSelf
• Paul WignallSelf
• Michael BentonSelf
• Michael R. RampinoSelf