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The Planet Earth (continuation)
About 175 million years ago, Pangaea began breaking up, the super continent at
that time. The Atlantic and other oceans appeared. The world began taking on its
current form than we see today. At this time, you could find the first pine trees,
praying mantises, and bees. The power over the planet was then passed on to
mammals in 50 million years ago. Without dinosaurs, they began feeling freedom
actively spreading around the planet and evolving with all their might.
Later on, about 1.4 million years ago, homo erectus began to colonize Eurasia.
They already knew how to use fire in 790 thousand years ago. Then, Homo
Sapiens appeared, the reasoning humans in 300 thousand years ago. They began
to populate the entire Earth so actively. They covered almost the entire planet in
40 thousand years ago. Today, the world's population is 8 billion people and
continues to grow. However, the planet is changing along with its people. Who
knows what turn of history awaits us in the future.
Earth in 4.5 billion years ago (left)
Snowball Earth in Ice Age Era (middle)
Earth today (right)
