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Flowering plants proliferated, along with new types of insects that pollinate them.
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The first birds and lizards appeared, Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs were diverse in the ocean.
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Dinosaurs appeared and became dominant, as did ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs in the seas and pterosaurs in the air.
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The first vascular plants appeared, plants with specialized tissues for conducting water and nutirents along with the first plants on land.
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Abotu 1,300 million years ago the first mountains were formed in North Carolina
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Many large mammals flourished, then beacame extinct. Anatomically modern humas evolved.
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The first species of the genus Homo to which humans appeared.
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Modern mammals and bird families became recongizable. Grasses spread across the globe, and the first apes appeared.
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Animals but especially mammals evolved rapidaly and became more diverse.
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The first grasses appeared. Some of the first modern families of mammals emerged, and primitive whales diversified.
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Early mammals diverse, and the first large mammals appeared. The worlds climate was still tropical, but gradually begam to cool.
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Amphibians were common and diverse. Also the first reptiles appeared.
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The first tiny vertebrates appeared.
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Amphibians remained common but small, while reptiles grew larger and diversified.
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The climate stablized as the glaciers retreated, making agriculture possible.
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Human civilization emerged.