
What Lies Beneath The Sahara_ The 440 Million Year Scar
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About This Episode
🌎 Did you know the Sahara Desert was once the coldest place on Earth? 440 million years ago, during the Ordovician Period, North Africa sat directly over the South Pole. This documentary reveals how the Hirnantian Glaciation transformed a tropical paradise into a frozen wasteland, triggering the first mass extinction and creating the vast oil reserves found today.
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