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2 BYA Archean Era, Life occurs MYA Cryogenian Period, Ball of ice MYA Ediacaran Period, soft-bodied animals The Natural History Museum, London BBC John Sibbick MYA Cambrian Period, varied sea life MYA Ordovician Period, sea and beach life MYA Silurian Period, bony fish, reef and wetland ecosystems John Sibbick/NHMPL The Natural History Museum, London Richard Bizley/Science Photo Library MYA Devonian Period, age of fishes MYA Carboniferous Period, lush forests and plants MYA Permian Period, Pangea occurs Richard Bizley/Science Photo Library Ludek Pesek/Science Photo Library The Natural History Museum, London MYA Triassic Period, mammals and dinosaurs MYA Jurassic Period, birds and dinosaurs MYA Cretaceous Period, dinosaur mass extinction John Sibbick/NHMPL John Sibbick/NHMPL John Sibbick/NHMPL
3 MYA Palaeocene Epoch, rise of mammals and birds MYA Eocene Epoch, Forests and grasses flourish MYA Oligocene Epoch, grasslands expand Christian Jegou, science photo library MYA Miocene Epoch, Age of the apes The Natural History Museum, London MYA Pliocene Epoch, human lineage splits from apes John Sibbick 2.6 MYA TYA Pleistocene Epoch, age of glaciers and humans John Sibbick/NHMPL 11.7 thousand - present Holocene Epoch, glaciers recede, humans affect landscape Christian Jegou, science photo library 443 MYA Ordovician-Silurian Mass Extinction, trilobites, brachiopods, and graptolites die off. The Natural History Museum, London 359 MYA Late Devonian Mass Extinction 75% of life dies off David Nunuk/Science Photo Library 248 MYA Permian Mass Extinction The Great Dying, 96% die-off The Natural History Museum, London 200 MYA Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction Mostly animal die-off Richard Bizley/Science Photo Library 65 MYA Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, death of dinosaurs Chris Butler/ Science Photo Library Ludek Pesek/Science Photo Library Mark Garlick/ Science Photo Library
4 13.7 Billion years ago Big Bang occurs 4.5 Billion B.C.E. Earth formed 3 Billion B.C.E. First sign of life (algae) Kardo Omed, Wiki Creative Commons NASA James Golden, Argon National Laboratory 3.7 Billion years old Oldest fossils discovered 4.4 million B.C.E. Earliest known hominid fossils, Ardipithecus ramidus 1.7 million B.C.E. Homo erectus leaves Africa Stromatolites: Allen Nutman MYA Tyrannosaurus rex M. Gard, wiki commons MYA Triceratops Tim Evanson, photograph of reconstruction MYA Stegosaurus Dellex, wiki commons MYA Ichthyosaurus Miguel Arzola: flikr creative commons 100 million years ago Xiphactinus Dellex, wiki creative commons MYA Pteranodon Loz Pycock, wiki commons Julian Johnson, Flikr Creative Commons DinoTeam, wiki commons
5 Million B.C.E. Ardipithecus ramidus 4.2 Million B.C.E. Australopithecus anamensis 3.2 Million B.C.E. Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy Arturo Asensi 2.5 Million B.C.E. Australopithecus afarensis 2.5 Million B.C.E. Homo habilis: Skillful Man John Gurche 2 Million B.C.E. Australopithecus robustus 1.8 Million B.C.E. Homo erectus: Upright Man 100,000 B.C.E. First modern Homo sapiens in South Africa 230,000 B.C.E. Neanderthal man (use of fire and advanced tools). 35,000 B.C.E. Neanderthal man replaced by Cro- Magnon man, other Homo Sapiens 18,000 B.C.E. Cro-Magnon man replaced by later cultures 15,000 B.C.E. Migrations across the Bering Straits: Beringia Charles Knight Neolithic man
6 MYA Dimetrodon, a pelycosaur, was a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. 42 MYA - 11,000 B.C.E. Saber-toothed Cat 120,000-4,000 B.C.E. Wooly Mammoth Charles Robert Knight MYA Trilobite Ordovicien Charles Robert Knight MYA Liopleurodon, marine predator Mammut, wiki commons MYA Megalodon: a shark longer than a schoolbus. 60 MYA Carbonemys BBC: dinosaurs/detail/liopleurodon/ MYA Titanoboa: a snake 40 feet long, discovered in a Columbian coal mine. 412 MYA Jaekelopterus, a crocodile sized sea scorpion. 99 MYA Juvenile coelurosaur preserved in amber: dinosaurs had feathers 508 MYA Hallucigenia, a lobopodian worm Walking with Dinos: dinos.wikia.com/wiki/pterygotus 2.5 MYA - 10,000 B.C.E. Giant ground sloths R. C. McKellar Joshua "Scorpion451" Evans, wiki commons Mark Hallet, Photo Science Library
7 MYA 110 MYA 165 MYA Clayton Lake State Park, dinosaur Paluxy river quarry, Texas. Child of WPA workers Mongolarachne spider fossils footprints found in sandstone (Tommy Pendly) sitting in a dinosaur footprint. found in Inner Mongolia, China James St. John, flikr commons 125 MYA Sinornithosaurus millennii, venomous feathered dinosaur R.T. Bird 13,000 B.C.E Mammoth carving on fossilized bone, first prehistoric art depiction of North American mammoth University of Kansas 112 MYA Sarcosuchus, Super Croc Mick Ellison, American Museum of Natural History 125 MYA Zhenyuanlong, a winged dinosaur, flightless, relative of raptor Chip Clark/Journal of Archaeological Science 72 MYA Raptor: Boreonykus certekorum discovered in in Canada 75 MYA Chasmosaurus, complete ceratopsid skeleton found at Alberta s Red Deer River, Canada Zhao Chuang, BBC 50 MYA Amphistium: flatfish University of New England MYA Ammonite fossil Michael Skrepnick 40 MYA Eocene carnivorous plant in amber Becks, wiki commons Alexander Schmidt-University of Gottingen
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