The Most Relaxing Facts About Super Mountains to Fall Asleep To

In this calm and sleepy facts episode, we explore the ancient story of super mountains... colossal mountain ranges that once stretched more than 8,000 kilometers across the Earth and have since vanished entirely. We follow the tiny, nearly indestructible crystals called zircons that revealed their existence, the rivers of dissolved rock that fertilized the ancient oceans with phosphorus, iron, and calcium, and the strange possibility that the first skeletons on Earth were built from ground up mountain. From the Transgondwanan range that rose as Gondwana assembled 650 million years ago to the even older Nuna super mountain that towered over a world where nothing lived on land, we trace how the rise and fall of these giants may have triggered the greatest leaps in the history of life... and how the billion year silence between them left evolution almost standing still.