i’ve been doing some illustrations for @YearOnEarth over on twitter, who is tweeting the histo
i’ve been doing some illustrations for @YearOnEarth over on twitter, who is tweeting the history of the earth compressed into one calendar year. now’s a great time to tune in–dinosaurs went extinct yesterday, and the first dogs* just appeared! (*caniforms)1. True Sauropods, like Vulcanodons, emerge from the mass extinction at the start of the Jurassic. (x)2. Snakes begin to appear during the Cretaceous. (x)3. An explosion in the complexity of plant life covers the planet in greenery. (x)4. A sudden decrease in CO2 corresponds with a massive growth of the Azolla fern in the arctic. (x)5. Placoderms (armoured fish), become extinct along with most jawless fish. (x)6. The continent of Laurasia collides with several smaller continents forming the super continent, Rodinia. (x)7. Anomolacaris, the Cambrian super predator, munches its way around the seabed. (x) -- source link
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