Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to 1,000,000 years (i.e. 1×106 years), or 31.556926 teraseconds... 3 KB (371 words) - 03:36, 24 April 2024 |
"Million Years Ago" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for her third studio album, 25 (2015). The song was written by Adele and Greg... 14 KB (1,147 words) - 02:45, 16 February 2024 |
Miocene (redirect from 13 million years ago) epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about 23.03 to 5.333 million years ago (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the... 93 KB (9,778 words) - 23:49, 24 April 2024 |
Pliocene (redirect from 2.4 million years ago) epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago. It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period... 52 KB (5,623 words) - 05:34, 27 April 2024 |
dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago, and modern humans (Homo sapiens) did not exist until about 300,000 years B.C. Ray Harryhausen, who animated... 30 KB (3,456 words) - 00:09, 9 April 2024 |
Year (redirect from Giga-years ago) convention among geoscientists to use "a" specifically for "years ago" (e.g. 1 Ma for 1 million years ago), and "y" or "yr" for a one-year time period. However... 51 KB (5,661 words) - 01:31, 17 April 2024 |
from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe... 41 KB (4,307 words) - 22:39, 26 April 2024 |
Quaternary period, from 2.5 million years ago to the present. Radiometric dating has yielded ages of up to 300,000 years for its rocks, and it reached... 53 KB (5,485 words) - 10:45, 16 April 2024 |
Danian (redirect from 65.5 million years ago) Priabonian Rupelian Chattian Aquitanian Subdivision of the Paleogene according to the ICS, as of 2021. Vertical axis scale: millions of years ago... 14 KB (1,387 words) - 18:59, 19 March 2024 |
diverged some 70 million years ago. New World monkeys and catarrhine monkeys emerged within the simians roughly 35 million years ago. Old World monkeys... 49 KB (4,529 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2024 |
Bya (redirect from Billion years ago) long scale to the short scale. Related units are mya ("million years ago"), and byr ("billion years"). These are traditionally written in lowercase. Ga or... 2 KB (198 words) - 04:02, 24 April 2024 |
Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (redirect from 66 million years ago) three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs. Most... 170 KB (18,659 words) - 15:43, 22 April 2024 |
the Earth, and mankind in one table. Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of... 237 KB (6,440 words) - 14:43, 26 April 2024 |
8 ± 3.6 million years ago in the Early Miocene and genetically diverged into two main genetic lineages between 19.1 and 18.5 ± 3.5 million years ago. The... 39 KB (2,738 words) - 13:37, 27 March 2024 |
in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago. It has been described variously as a submerged continent, continental... 18 KB (2,899 words) - 04:01, 18 March 2024 |
3 million years ago (which created the Henry's Fork Caldera and the Mesa Falls Tuff), and the Lava Creek eruption approximately 640,000 years ago (which... 38 KB (3,886 words) - 23:15, 15 April 2024 |
a genus of dolichoderine ants thought to have gone extinct 15–20 million years ago was found in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina and redescribed in 2006... 49 KB (5,626 words) - 23:31, 26 March 2024 |
site was dated to c. 1.4 million years ago, but further research has fixed its chronological context to 1.5–1.2 million years ago. The site yielded stone... 23 KB (2,592 words) - 08:27, 17 April 2024 |
and 445 million years ago, the Acadian orogeny, from 410 to 380 million years ago, and the Alleghanian orogeny from 325 to 220 million years ago pushed... 19 KB (2,705 words) - 13:04, 19 April 2024 |