All of the fossils date back to 183 million years ago during the Jurassic period.
The last one happened 65 million years ago when a large asteroid crashed into the Earth.
Finds from Java suggest early humans reached South-East Asia by 1.6 million years ago.
The PC, in fact, is probably a lot like the dinosaurs of 66 million years ago.
"Aesthetically it looks like modern art, but it's 400 million years old, " he says.
It deposited its gigantic footprints here some 120 million years ago and they remain perfectly preserved.
"I didn't ever think in a million years I would see something like that, " Smith said.
Greenland, for example, has experienced an estimated 600 of these cycles over the past million years.
The process is not swift--it can take up to 10 million years to clean an ocean.
There seem to have been two hominid species present at Swartkrans around two million years ago.
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During the Jurassic period, 165 million years ago, the area was a warm shallow sea.
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Current evidence suggests that snakes started to evolve less than 150 million years ago.
Two hundred and fifty million years ago the Earth had one landmass what scientists call Pangaea.
"These three groups then persisted until at least 65 million years ago, " said Dr Nesbitt.
Among our ancestors, brain size doubled between two million and one million years ago.
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Then it has almost doubled again between one million years and the present day.
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The pine was thought to have been extinct for at least two million years.
In practice, though, he was never going to make it, not in a million years.
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Cetotheres emerged about 15 million years ago and once occupied oceans across the globe.
McManus said she didn't think in a million years she'd be making car parts.
If so, it raises the possibility that hominids colonised South-East Asia at least two million years ago.
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The mantle beneath rose some 200 million years ago, resulting in the elevation of the lake floor.
The last time CO2 was regularly above 400ppm was three to five million years ago - before modern humans existed.
In spite of all the advances in the past 60 million years, no-one can control the climate.
Harryhausen went on to make some of the fantasy genre's best-known movies, among them One Million Years B.
My piece is set in the late Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago (give or take a few).
The move comes despite Tierney saying he would not move to Norwich "in a million years" last season.
It predates the dinosaur by 150 million years, and today no fewer than 5, 000 species infest the Earth.
What explains the extraordinarily fast rate of evolution in the human lineage over the past two million years?
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After 150 million years of triumphant existence the hardy dinosaurs, unable to withstand the resultant climatic changes, became extinct.
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