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It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek Ἠώς ( Ēṓs, "Dawn") and καινός ( kainós, "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. [ 7][ 8] The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Paleocene Epoch to the ...
Late Devonian: 375 million years ago, 75% of species lost, including most trilobites. End Permian, The Great Dying: 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost, including tabulate corals, and most trees and synapsids. End Triassic: 200 million years ago, 80% of species lost, including all conodonts. End Cretaceous: 66 million years ago, 76% of ...
Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Volcanic outgassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen.
Born in New York City on Dec. 24, 1945 — four months after the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, effectively ending World War II — Meyer grew up in the shadow of the ...
40 years ago, a beloved Peoria restaurant was the source of a historic botulism outbreak. Journal Star. Dean Muellerleile, Peoria Journal Star. Updated October 10, 2023 at 4:58 PM.
"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" debuted 40 years ago this week, introducing the world to one of the most recognizable little aliens in pop culture. The film tells the story of a friendship between a ...
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age. Very broadly, it dates to between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago (the beginning of the Holocene ), according to some theories coinciding with the appearance of behavioral modernity in early modern humans, [1] until the advent of the ...
Recorded January 28, 1986. Other offices. 1968[5]–1969:[6]Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan(/ˈreɪɡən/ ⓘRAY-gən; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United Statesfrom 1981 to 1989.