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Here Is The History Of Life As We Know It

Mike NudelmanDec 17, 2014, 20:07 IST

A lot has happened in the Earth's nearly 4.6 billion-year history. Volcanoes erupted, asteroids crashed down, life formed, and countless species evolved and went extinct, all while the continents were slowly drifting around.

Designer Juan David Martinez captures this vast and humbling history in the absorbing graphic below.