Before Forests: The Lost World That Changed Earth Forever | Full Documentary

Before forests covered the continents, Earth was a far more alien world — bare rock, violent storms, active volcanoes, and almost no life on land. Then the first plants began to spread. This prehistoric documentary follows one of the greatest transformations in Earth’s history: how early plants left the water, created soil, changed the atmosphere, built the first forests, and made complex life on land possible. From ancient algae and primitive vascular plants to the rise of roots, leaves, seeds, and the world’s earliest forests, discover how a quiet green revolution reshaped the planet long before dinosaurs appeared. Earth Origins Archive explores the lost worlds, extinct life, and deep-time events that created the Earth we know today.