Began in 2.

6 million
years ago and
extends into
the present.
Sea levels rose rapidly, and the
continents achieved
their present-day outline. Humans
evolve to their modern form.
 Began in
65 million years ago-2.588
million years ago. The Tertiary
Period was very humid and warm.
Plants flourished
until the climate started to cool,
creating a very famous age we know
as the ice age.
 The Cretaceous Period of the Mezoic era
was the final and the longest period. It
occured from 14.5 million years ago to
65.5 million years ago. There was a minor
mass extinction that marks the beginning of
the Cretaceous. Pangea was still drifting
apart, but by the end of this period, the land
masses were in very similar spots to where
they are today. The expanded coast lines,
shifting continents, and widening oceans
created a cooler environment.
 The Jurassic period began in
199.6 million to 145.5 million
years ago was characterized by a
warm, wet climate that gave rise to
lush vegetation and abundant life.
Many new dinosaurs emerged in
great numbers.
 The Triassic Period was the first
period of the Mesozoic Era and
occured between 251 million and
199 million years ago. It followed
the great mass extinction at the end
of Permian Period and was a time
when life outside of the oceans
began to diversify.
 The lush equatorial ecosystem of
the late Permian, about 260
milion years ago. New research
shows us that the Permian equator
was both a literal and figurative
hotspot: it was, for the most part, a
scorching hot desert, on top of
having a concentration of unique
animals.
 lasting from 323.2 million to
298.9 million years ago.
Pennsylvanian is recognized as a
time of significant advance and
retreat by shallow seas. Many
nonmarine areas near the Equator
became coal swamps during the
Pennsylvanian. These areas are
mined for coal today
Occured in 359.2 million years to
318.1 million years ago. Towns
and ceremonial centers were built
near old river or stream channels
where the best soil for agriculture
was found and there was direct
access to water. People also began
fortifying their towns and villages
with defense structures such as
moats.
 Occured in 419.2 to 358.9
million years ago. often described
as the Age of Fish, a fact perhaps
best exemplified by the enormous
dunkleosteus. Although the now
long-extinct placoderms first
evolved during the Silurian, they
enjoyed unprecedented
evolutionary success by the middle
of the Devonian to such an extent
that they dominated virtually every
marine ecosystem.
 started approximately 443-440
million years ago and ended 419
million years ago. The period is
marked by some fairly impressive
geological changes. The supercontinent
Gondwana covered the equator and a
large portion of the Southern
Hemisphere and this created a large
northern ocean that covered the upper
half of the Earth. Since sea levels
were so high at this time, with few
mountain belts, this created quite a
few island chains.
 Over 44 million years ago,
during the Ordovician period, the
world we know today was a place
of sea dwelling monsters, ice
ages, and major changes that
would lead up to the Earth. Most
life during this time period lived
in the ocean, and almost all
animals were diverse marine
invertebrates.
Flash back 540 million years. It’s the
dawn of a new era, and something
very, very big is about to happen to
life on Earth. Over the next 10 million
years — a blink of an eye in our
planet’s long history — dozens of new
forms of animals will suddenly emerge
in the oceans. This burst of life
marked the start of a period in Earth’s
history called the Cambrian.
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