What If You Lived in the Paleozoic Era?

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It’s a Paleozoic party! We’re throwing it back 530 million years.

When the Earth woke up from an ice age, the Paleozoic Era began. This era lasted for 289 million years, but you might not even last five minutes in a Paleozoic climate.

The Paleozoic Era was divided into six periods: Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian. Our Earth gave birth to new animal species and the continents as we know them began to take shape.

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00:00 What If You Lived in the Paleozoic Era?
02:28 Cambrian Period
03:20 Ordovician Period
04:12 Silurian Period
04:40 Devonian Period
05:27 Carboniferous Period
06:03 Permian Period

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