The Great Dying: The Extinction That Nearly Ended Life on Earth | Prehistoric Documentary for Sleep

Fall asleep to the story of the Great Dying, the Permian extinction, a calm prehistoric documentary told slowly for sleep. This is a long, calm sleep story for grown ups, a slow natural-history documentary narrated in a quiet voice for deep relaxation, insomnia relief, and a peaceful night of rest. The full arc unfolds gently, beginning with ash on the meishan hillside and moving on through the line only a conodont can draw, the permian world before the fall, a slow fading already underway, the earlier warning: the capitanian crisis, the siberian traps awaken. There is no rush and nothing to follow closely, only the ancient story of The Great Dying unfolding at the slow pace of sleep. Ideal as a bedtime documentary for adults, prehistoric natural history told slowly, or calm history for sleep, study, and relaxation. If sleep comes before the end, let it come. If this helped you drift off, please subscribe for a new astronomy sleep story every week, and use the chapters below to find your place if you wake in the night. ───────────────────────────── CHAPTERS ───────────────────────────── 0:00 Ash on the Meishan Hillside 2:43 The Line Only a Conodont Can Draw 6:36 The Permian World Before the Fall 10:28 A Slow Fading Already Underway 14:21 The Earlier Warning: The Capitanian Crisis 18:14 The Siberian Traps Awaken 22:06 Carbon Floods the Air 25:59 Warming, Acid, and Sunburned Spores 29:52 Suffocating, Sulfurous Seas 33:44 The Main Pulse in the Rock 37:37 The Stillness of the Seafloor 41:30 The Chemistry of Who Survived 45:23 The Disputed Fungal Spike 49:15 One Pulse or Several? 53:08 Land and Sea, Out of Step 57:01 The Proposed Accomplices 1:00:53 The Shovel Lizard 1:04:46 Cope, Beadle, and the First Skull 1:08:39 The World Almost to Itself 1:12:31 The Slow Return of the Seas 1:16:24 Aftershocks in the Triassic 1:20:17 What the Boundary Taught Us 1:24:10 Retracing the Great Dying 1:28:02 A Single Candle Over Deep Time ───────────────────────────── #cosmicMythology #SleepStory #TheGreatDying Every episode is created for this channel from original research, original writing, narration, visual direction, and production.