evidence of life, first oxygen atmosphere, ozone layer forms, metazoan fossils. Paleozoic(510 to 245millions ya): fishes, plants, amphibians evolve, huge mass extinction. Continent drifting(end of Pangea). Mesozoic(200 to 65millions ya): reptiles like dinos, mammals, birds, atlantic ocean first opens, angiosperms flowering plants, dinosaurs go extinct. Cenozoic (3.4millions ya to now): Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis, pleistocene ice age begins[2], Homo erectus fossils from Ethiopia [.600], Homo…
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