circa 250,000,000 BCE – The super-continent Pangaea forms
Pangaea was a super-continent – an agglomeration of multiple continents – that came into being about 250 million years ago. It was composed of all the continents we know today fused into a single...
View Articlecirca 284,000,000 BCE – Bolosaurid Eudibamus is the first known biped
The earliest known bipedal vertebrate, eudibamus cursoris was a small parareptile. The sole specimen that has been found (in Thuringia, Germany) measured about 25 cm long – about the size of a house...
View Articlecirca 4,200,000,000 BCE – The Earth’s oceans form
The majestic oceans of planet Earth were formed neither quickly nor simply. It took literally millions of years between the first surface water’s appearance and the creation of the primordial sea....
View Articlecirca 4,540,000,000 BCE – The Earth gets cooler
In the early millenia of what is sometimes referred to as the Hadean era of the Earth, there were no rocks as we would commonly understand the term – it was too hot for them to form. Still, the Earth...
View Articlecirca 13,700,000,000 BCE – The Big Bang
The short version: in the beginning, there was nothing, which then exploded. The longer version: all the matter in the universe was compressed into the smallest possible volume. Try to understand that...
View Articlecirca 65,500,000 BCE – The Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event wipes out the...
Everyone loves the dinosaurs. A lot of people – if the Jurassic Park films are to be believed – would like to see them come back. But without their extinction, we wouldn’t be here today. Even now, it’s...
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circa 120,000 BCE — The people later to be known as Indigenous Australians...
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circa 900,000 BCE — the earliest boats are invented
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circa 300,000 BCE — Mousterian tool kit evolves among Neanderthals
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circa 3,900,000 BCE — Australopithecus evolves
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