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Stories of the
prehistoric world.

Paleonova follows the history of life on Earth, from early oceans and the first animals to dinosaurs, ice-age mammals and the ecosystems around us today.

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Deep Time

What did Earth look like before animals?

Early oceans, oxygen and the slow build-up to complex life.

Extinction

Why did ammonites disappear?

A story about oceans, food chains and the end-Cretaceous event.

Prehistoric Life

How big was Megalodon really?

What teeth, body models and living sharks can tell us.

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What we cover

Deep time,
explained clearly.

Each episode focuses on the evidence: fossils, climate, extinction events, evolution and the changing shape of life through time.

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Prehistoric Life

Animals from ancient seas, dinosaur ecosystems and the mammal lineages that followed.

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Mass Extinctions

What changed during Earth's largest biological crises, and how life recovered afterward.

03

The Tree of Life

Major branches of animal life, from broad groups down to familiar and extinct examples.

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The past is still here. It is written in rock, bone and trace fossils.

Paleonova is a place for careful natural history storytelling. The goal is simple: explain prehistoric life without turning the science into noise.

The channel follows animals, environments and extinction events through the long history of life on Earth.

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