Researched and Written by Leila Battison
Narrated and Edited by David Kelly
Art by Khail Kupsky
Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza

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Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.

References:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/2015...
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   • That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everyt...  
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Image Credits (in order of appearance):

Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

By James St. John - Jaspilite banded iron formation (Soudan Iron-Formation, Neoarchean, ~2.69 Ga; Stuntz Bay Road outcrop, Soudan Underground State Park, Soudan, Minnesota, USA) 53, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By James St. John - Jaspilite banded iron formation (Soudan Iron-Formation, Neoarchean, ~2.69 Ga; Stuntz Bay Road outcrop, Soudan Underground State Park, Soudan, Minnesota, USA) 53, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

By Yanenming - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Bäras - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By McGhiever - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Zosma - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By John Sweeney - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Abrget47j - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By Mhsheikholeslami - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

By James St. John - Tillite (Coleman Member, Gowganda Formation, Paleoproterozoic, ~2.3 Ga; Straight Lake West roadcut, north of Temagami, Ontario, Canada) 10, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

By Oleg Kuznetsov - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Life restoration of Mimoperadectes. By Jorge González - Horovitz I, Martin T, Bloch J, Ladevèze S, Kurz C, et al. (2009) Cranial Anatomy of the Earliest Marsupials and the Origin of Opossums. PLoS ONE 4(12): e8278. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008278.g006, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...