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Flowering plants prolifertaed, along withnew types of insects that pollinate them.
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Dinosaurs appeared and became dominant, as did ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs in the seas and pterosaurs in the air. - 251Mya
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Paleozoic - Plants took over land. Fishes were common and diverse. First horsetails and ferns appeared. - 416 Mya
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Cenozoic - Worlds climate was still tropical but gradually started to get cool when mammals diversified. - 65.5 Mya
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The land under NC was pulled apart, and inland seas emerged.- 1000Mya
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About 1,300 million years ago, the first mountains were formed in North Carolina. - 1600Mya
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Many large mammals flourished, then became extinct. Antatomically modern humans evolved. - 1.8 Mya
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Hom habilis, the first species of the genus Homo to which humans belong, appeared. - 5.3Mya
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Modern mammel and bird families became recognizable. - 23.0Mya
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Animals, especially mammals, evolved rapidly and became more diverse. - 33.9Mya
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In the seas invertebrrates diversified into many new types and the first tiny vertebrates appeared. The first green plants and fungi appeared on land.
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amphibians remained common but small. Reptiles, though, grew larger and diversified. Beetles and flies evolved. - 299Mya
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As oxygen - producing bacteria proliferated, the atmosphere becameoxygenic-filled with oxygen- for the first time. - 2500Mya
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In wetland forest, ferns thrived and primitive trees called scale trees grew more than 100 ft high. - 359Mya
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The earth formed about 4,500 million years ago, as a cloud of gas and dust gradually collapsed into the sun and other bodies of our solar system.
