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Sixty-five million years ago, on the planet Somaris, pilot Mills is convinced by his wife that he should take on a two-year space expedition to earn the money needed to treat their daughter Nevine's illness. During the journey, his spaceship, the Zoic, is hit by a mass of asteroids and crash lands on an alien planet, Earth. With his ship ...
Formed about 50 million years ago, Devils Tower is thought to be the eroded remnant of a volcanic intrusion, with its distinctive columns. Beyond its geological intrigue, Devils Tower holds ...
One Million B.C. 1940: United States [citation needed] One Million Years B.C. 1966: United Kingdom [citation needed] One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing: 1975: United Kingdom, United States [citation needed] Palm Springs: 2020: United States [citation needed] The People That Time Forgot: 1977: United Kingdom, United States [citation needed] Planet ...
Earth formed in this manner about 4.54 billion years ago (with an uncertainty of 1%) [25] [26] [4] and was largely completed within 10–20 million years. [27] In June 2023, scientists reported evidence that the planet Earth may have formed in just three million years, much faster than the 10−100 million years thought earlier.
The fossils were between 35.5 to 35.9 million years old and were found in a nearly 10-foot-long rock core: a tube-like sample taken from underneath the Gulf of Mexico by the scientific Deep Sea ...
Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found. Over 500 million years ago ...
The Eocene (IPA: / ˈ iː ə s iː n, ˈ iː oʊ-/ EE-ə-seen, EE-oh-[5] [6]) is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era.
The Paleocene (IPA: / ˈ p æ l i. ə s iː n,-i. oʊ-, ˈ p eɪ l i-/ PAL-ee-ə-seen, -ee-oh-, PAY-lee-), [4] or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya). It is the first epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era.