# History of the Earth: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-27, History of the Earth has 610,000 subscribers, 62,359,616 total views, and 35 videos. It ranks #124,539 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [History of the Earth](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for History of the Earth is “What Was The Earth Like When It Had Rings?”, a long-form video published Oct 30, 2025.
- These are History of the Earth’s 35 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between May 1, 2020 and Oct 30, 2025 (35 long-form videos).
- Median views across these 35 uploads: 1,252,937. 17 videos are above that median and 17 below, and 1 is equal to it.
- Most viewed in the sample: “How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?” (6,229,801 views, Dec 20, 2020). Least viewed: “History of the Universe Channel Trailer” (47,261 views, Apr 17, 2021).
- Median length: 32:11 for 35 long-form videos.
- In this sample, History of the Earth’s consecutive uploads were a median of 32 days apart (shortest gap 7 days, longest 195 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 28, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [What Was The Earth Like When It Had Rings?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/NfCAidnP6YA/) | 2025-10-30 | Long-form | 441,860 | 55:59 | 2.02x |
| [How Did The First Brain Evolve?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/6fd-Q_Lxn_s/) | 2025-06-28 | Long-form | 489,830 | 1:25:59 | 2.24x |
| [How Has Outer Space Shaped Life on Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/GfGxqtW5-y4/) | 2024-12-22 | Long-form | 443,391 | 56:26 | 2.03x |
| [What Was The First Predator On Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/SnWJPKH-Mlg/) | 2024-11-16 | Long-form | 519,074 | 1:11:22 | 2.37x |
| [What Was The Earth Like 500 Million Years Ago?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/41bjUjUECtg/) | 2024-06-05 | Long-form | 798,403 | 56:39 | 3.65x |
| [What Caused The Cambrian Explosion?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/kO2hSKLuFNs/) | 2023-12-21 | Long-form | 2,048,459 | 1:33:38 | - |
| [How Far Back In Earth's History Could You Have Survived?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/XMQKCfXRW8A/) | 2023-06-09 | Long-form | 1,664,840 | 57:02 | 0.73x |
| [Were These The First Animals?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/Spk0edEuNbQ/) | 2022-12-14 | Long-form | 2,271,886 | 54:23 | 0.81x |
| [Why Did The Earth Totally Freeze For 100 Million Years?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/vntVVcazJD4/) | 2022-08-31 | Long-form | 3,354,745 | 49:12 | 15.32x |
| [What Was The First Fungus?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/KH9JVy-u5DQ/) | 2022-05-30 | Long-form | 4,628,400 | 1:02:10 | 21.14x |
| [What Was The Earth Like 1 Billion Years Ago?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/nTT8Z6fI7_8/) | 2022-02-18 | Long-form | 2,195,546 | 42:46 | 10.03x |
| [What Was The First Complex Life on Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/HDim45WdlLs/) | 2021-11-30 | Long-form | 1,952,668 | 59:33 | 8.92x |
| [What Was The "Boring Billion" Really Like?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/0sbwUeTyDb0/) | 2021-10-17 | Long-form | 5,045,743 | 36:10 | 23.05x |
| [A Tour of Earth's Ancient Superoceans](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/GTyL2ooH23E/) | 2021-07-31 | Long-form | 2,071,070 | 42:50 | 9.46x |
| [A Tour of Earth's Ancient Supercontinents](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/ZpoplYQhoFs/) | 2021-06-26 | Long-form | 4,745,331 | 48:46 | 21.67x |
| [What Was The Earth Like 2 Billion Years Ago?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/ROaH4jABBXw/) | 2021-05-16 | Long-form | 4,052,333 | 32:11 | 18.51x |
| [History of the Universe Channel Trailer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/oHFqg8aFvPQ/) | 2021-04-17 | Long-form | 47,261 | 0:47 | - |
| [What Is The Other 99.99% Of Life?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/ZyRG6CWO0PE/) | 2021-04-08 | Long-form | 834,798 | 32:29 | 3.81x |
| [What Was The First Virus?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/PDkvrWt7qN8/) | 2021-02-24 | Long-form | 1,942,555 | 26:33 | 8.87x |
| [What Would The Earth Be Like Without Photosynthesis?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/Cz-b-b0sNkg/) | 2021-01-31 | Long-form | 589,835 | 35:01 | 2.69x |
| [How Did Life Recover From The First Mass Extinction?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/rwHFwltF4yk/) | 2021-01-06 | Long-form | 1,591,989 | 27:56 | 7.27x |
| [How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/H476c8UjLXY/) | 2020-12-20 | Long-form | 6,229,801 | 26:49 | 28.45x |
| [What Was Earth Like 3 Billion Years Ago?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/chOXnnT7eEk/) | 2020-11-22 | Long-form | 2,377,032 | 27:02 | 10.86x |
| [How The Earth Got Its Magnetic Field (And Why It Might Not Protect Us Much Longer)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/9CSGOtEnEnI/) | 2020-10-11 | Long-form | 618,600 | 23:20 | 2.83x |
| [What is the Oldest Fossil on Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/or1Zr89Qabg/) | 2020-09-25 | Long-form | 1,252,937 | 30:49 | 5.72x |
| [What Would The Earth Have Been Like Without Life?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/QbJGum0sWYE/) | 2020-09-02 | Long-form | 881,924 | 21:25 | 4.03x |
| [Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/cUyLODoZiVM/) | 2020-08-08 | Long-form | 470,576 | 16:46 | 2.15x |
| [Were Volcanoes The Key To Life?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/7iO5gUGa-Yc/) | 2020-07-18 | Long-form | 744,384 | 21:22 | 3.4x |
| [What Was The Last Common Ancestor of all Life on Earth?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/_vhI6_KCabY/) | 2020-07-11 | Long-form | 734,039 | 23:42 | 3.35x |
| [How Did Life Begin?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/WZCeOUSYb4g/) | 2020-07-04 | Long-form | 1,882,674 | 21:31 | 8.6x |
| [Where Did Earth's Water Come From?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/vjDnh7zfO98/) | 2020-06-14 | Long-form | 2,540,597 | 31:31 | 11.6x |
| [The Mystery of the Late Heavy Bombardment](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/_x2GlgyF8yE/) | 2020-06-07 | Long-form | 879,032 | 20:05 | 4.01x |
| [What Was Earth Like 4 Billion Years Ago?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/zirLiSIxwPM/) | 2020-05-23 | Long-form | 1,083,337 | 21:51 | 4.95x |
| [How Did The Earth Form?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/0_a_xU2KQdE/) | 2020-05-09 | Long-form | 898,187 | 18:16 | 4.1x |
| [A New Journey](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@historyoftheearth/videos/TKuLayRX0Jg/) | 2020-05-01 | Long-form | 49,043 | 0:44 | - |

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