People are writing things down. You could probably find breakfast.
Smartasaurus interactive
Deep Time
Scroll backwards. From this morning to the day Earth formed, 4.6 billion years ago. Almost none of it had anything resembling you in it.
Today
The thinnest possible slice of the planet's story. Scroll back.
The last ice age ends
Sea levels rise 120 metres. Whole coastlines and their people vanish underwater.
The Ice Ages begin
Glacial cycles start locking and unlocking the planet every hundred thousand years.
The asteroid
Ten kilometres wide, into shallow sea. Three quarters of all species gone.
The Great Dying
The worst extinction ever recorded. Around 90% of marine species stop existing.
The Cambrian explosion
Almost every animal body plan alive today appears in a geological instant.
The Great Oxidation
Microbes flood the air with oxygen and poison most of the life that made it.
The oldest fossils
Mats of bacteria in shallow water. This is life's earliest surviving evidence.
Earth forms
A ball of molten rock being hit by other rocks. No ocean, no air, no ground.
You made it to the bottom
0 yrs ago
If Earth's history were one day long, humans show up in the last two seconds of it.