Bone

Your World, My World

Bone

Earth began its life journey 4.6 billion years ago as a hot molten ball. During the cooling process the earth crust, atmosphere and oceans slowly but surely gained shape. The first life developed about 3.8 billion years ago in the oceans, simple cells. About 1.7 billion years ago the cells developed a core and microorganisms began their invasion. The algae that first started in the oceans billions of years ago produced oxygen that fed the atmosphere. Organisms then adapted to what was actually toxic oxygen which then led to the birth of more and more complex species. Earth filled with innumerable forms of life: plants, fish reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals … man was one of the final results of these adaptations.

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Primordial soup?

Primordial soup

Once the Earth’s crust had cooled off sufficiently, the first oceans began to form. All kinds of substances mixed with the water, forming a primordial soup. This soup began to generate life

Diorama of Ichtyostega, one of the first animals that left the water

Out of the water

3,800 million years ago, the earliest life forms appeared in the oceans. These were simple, unicellular organisms. The first multicellular organisms appeared approximately 1,000 million years ago.

Reconstruction of Coelacanth

The Coelacanth, living fossil

There were Coelacanths swimming around in the oceans in 400 million years ago. We only knew them as fossils. And then, in 1938, a fisherman brought up a living Coelacanth.

Allosaur

From dinosaur to bird

Dinosaurussen bestaan nog: zelfs in de stad vliegen ze nog rond.

Andrewsarchus

The new world after the dinosaurs

After the dinosaurs disappeared, the mammals took power''. Andrewsarchus was one of them.

Ice age animals

Hot and cold

Around five to six million years ago, the climate changed from being hot all the time to alternating between cold and hot periods. Over the last two million years, there have been at least twenty ice ages.

Birds

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Nature management

An ecological network helps plants and animals survive, for it makes their living space larger.