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The First Fire on Earth

27/11/201428/01/2017 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

083 This event in the Diary of the Universe is yet to be written in detail but it will cover the time 460,000,000 years ago, when the presence of plant life and oxygen came together for the first time to create the required conditions for the first fire in our solar system. Around that same…

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Massive Asteroid Strike in South Africa

27/11/201428/01/2017 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

052 This date in the Diary of the Universe is yet to be written in detail, but covers the time 2,023,000,000 years ago when a massive asteroid slammed into South Africa making the largest crater in the earth’s history, some 300 kilometres across. There is only one crater in our whole solar system that is…

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075 Before life on land

25/11/201428/01/2017 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

075   Tetrapods have evolved from crawling fish (Tiktaalic had a pelvis) over 15 million years. Earliest evidence for colour sensitive eyes.

068 Snowball Earth

25/11/201422/12/2016 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

Ice sheets form from the poles spread towards the equator, eventually  cover the whole earth 3 kilometres thick.

038 Before there was life, the first cell

25/11/201406/01/2015 • Dan Hughes • Add your comment

Single cell organisms evolve around underwater volcanic vents. Many contain photo receptor proteins.

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