When did NOVA Season 50 Episode 12 air?
NOVA Season 50 Episode 12 aired on October 11, 2023 at 9 PM ET.


PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.

700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole—a global deep freeze that held the planet in a stranglehold, threatening the survival of the earliest complex life. How did life manage to hold on in this forbidding world? Leading scientists investigate how this catastrophe may have become a catalyst for life to evolve in creative new ways as it bounced back from the brink—setting the stage for the astonishing complexity we see today.
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NOVA Season 50 Episode 12 aired on October 11, 2023 at 9 PM ET.
This episode runs for approximately 54 minutes.
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