Tag: deep time

100 thousand years ago, Modern Humans emerge. Language, shamanic and goddess religions, and art become integral with human life.

4 million years ago, Hominids leave the forest, stand up, and walk on two legs.

Over the course of the next 60 million years Earth greets rodents, whales, monkeys, horses, cats and dogs,

65 million years ago – Shortly after primates appear on the scene, the Cretaceous period ends with the 6th mass extinction after an asteroid 6 miles in diameter hits the Yucatan peninsula

114 million years ago, Flowers evolve gorgeous and overt sexual organs, making themselves irresistible to insects by way of colours, perfumes, and delightful nectars.

150 million years ago. Birds emerge, a direct descendant of the dinosaur as leg bones evolve into wing bones, jawbones into beaks and scales into feathers.

225 million years ago, the first mammals, small and nocturnal, jump, climb, swing, and swim through a world of giants.

235 million years ago sees the end of the Permian period when the 4th and greatest mass extinction of life on Earth takes place.

335 Million years ago, the first subtropical forests evolve. Over generations, these forests load themselves with carbon extracted from the atmosphere which later becomes fossilized as coal and oil

395 million years ago – The first amphibian animals hop and lumber onto land, trading in their gill slits for air-breathing lungs, transforming fins into stubby legs and continuing to return to the water to lay their eggs.