4½ billion years – The History of Life and Earth
The Earth was formed 4 1/2 billion years ago. It was hot, vulcanoes were active and the planet´s surface was bombarded by meteorites. Since then, the Earth has cooled, massive continents have formed and been destroyed, mountains have grown and been worn down. The atmosphere has filled with oxygen created by living organisms.For millions of years, giant dinosaurs roamed the continents only to mysteriously disappear allowing the first mammals to take their place. Join us on a journey through time, and experience the History of Earth and Life.
The first dinosaurs appeared on the Earth some 220 million years ago. One of the dinosaurs of that time was the plant-eating Plateosaurus. It could stand up on its hind legs and in doing so, eat leaves from the tops of trees.
We know the dinosaurs roamed a land which later came to be called Sweden. The finds are few. One is a foot print which was discovered in Scania (Skåne), southern Sweden. The dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago allowing mammals to become diverse.
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