The 60 Million Year Secret Buried Beneath Your Feet — The Carboniferous Period

In this full documentary, we explore: → Why no organism could rot wood for 60 million years — and why that created trillions of tons of coal → The 100-foot lycopsid trees that grew faster than any tree alive today → The oxygen spike that let dragonflies grow to the size of hawks → How the first reptile egg broke every rule of vertebrate evolution → The slow collapse of the greatest forests Earth has ever seen → The direct line connecting a 300-million-year-old swamp to the climate crisis of today SOURCES & FURTHER READING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Suggested: "Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction" — George McGhee USGS Coal Formation: https://www.usgs.gov Berner & Canfield (1989) oxygen model — American Journal of Science 📌 ABOUT The Sleepy Science TV USA : Hi, welcome to my channel The Sleepy Science TV USA . I always share educational history with you which is true and you can sleep very relaxed by watching these long videos. We do a lot of in-depth research into history and many mysterious past events, prehistoric events, and various important educational chapters of history. So subscribe to our channel and turn on the bell icon to constantly show the best videos in history for sleeping.