The Five Great Extinctions | A SleepWise Story
Drift into deep time with this calming bedtime story about the five great mass extinctions that reshaped life on Earth.
Tonight, we journey across hundreds of millions of years, from the warm shallow seas of the Ordovician to the final days of the dinosaurs. Along the way, we explore the frozen oceans of the first great extinction, the mysterious collapse of Devonian reefs, the volcanic catastrophe of the Great Dying, the breakup of Pangaea, and the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous world.
This is not only a story of disappearance. It is also a story of endurance. After each extinction, life returned slowly, carried forward by small survivors, sheltered seeds, adaptable animals, and lineages that found new ways to live in a changed world. New reefs formed, new forests spread, and new creatures inherited spaces left behind by those that vanished.
Told in the calm, reflective style of SleepWise, this episode blends paleontology, geology, climate science, and evolutionary history into a gentle journey through Earth’s deepest past. You do not need to remember every period, species, or date. Simply follow the changing oceans, continents, and skies as the ancient world fades and begins again.
Settle in, let your thoughts slow, and allow the long history of life on Earth to carry you quietly toward sleep.
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