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From the Big Bang
to Today

Scroll down to experience the amazing 13.8-billion-year journey of evolution, from the birth of the universe to modern human civilization.

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Stage 01 13.8 billion years ago

The Big Bang

From an unimaginably tiny, dense and hot point, the entire universe expanded in an instant. Space, time and fundamental energy were created.

Temperature 10³² Kelvin

Elements Hydrogen, Helium

Stage 02 13.4 - 4.6 billion years ago

Stars & Galaxies

Gravity pulled clouds of hydrogen gas together and the first stars ignited. Along with them, billions of galaxies, including the Milky Way, came into being.

💡 Scientific fact: Our Sun and the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.

Stage 03 4.5 billion - 540 million years ago

Earth & the First Life

Once a ball of fire, the Earth slowly cooled and oceans formed. In the ocean waters the first microscopic organisms (bacteria) appeared, and later complex aquatic life evolved.

🌊 Formation of the first oceans

🦠 Photosynthesis & O₂

Stage 04 252 - 66 million years ago

Age of Dinosaurs & the Mass Extinction

Dinosaurs dominated the Earth, and some of them evolved into flying birds. About 66 million years ago a huge asteroid struck, and the large dinosaurs went extinct.

☄️ Chicxulub Asteroid: The 10 km wide asteroid wiped out about 75% of life on Earth.

Stage 05 300,000 years ago to today

Human Civilization & the Future

Humans (Homo sapiens) evolved from small mammals that survived the dinosaur extinction. Through the use of fire, agriculture and the Industrial Revolution, we have arrived at a technological age in which we explore the universe.