| Try to think way, way, way, way outside the | | | | resembling (the Sigourney Weaver type, not the |
| box for a minute, try to squeeze the 4,500 million | | | | extra-terrestrial sort) trilobites emerged onto the |
| years of the Earth's history into a single day, | | | | scene. In a comparative glut of activity, the very |
| twenty-four little hours. Difficult isn't it? But if you | | | | odd and very diverse creatures of the Burgess |
| can, this is how the world has progressed - the | | | | Shale followed close on their heels. |
| first signs of life began creeping around just after | | | | There was no stopping life now, just before |
| four o'clock in the morning, it consisted of simple, | | | | 22:00, plant life began to flourish, encouraging at |
| single-celled organisms and that was it for the | | | | long, long last the first land creatures to make |
| next sixteen hours! | | | | their debut. They were blessed, as there followed |
| The day was almost completely wasted until just | | | | a warming of planet Earth which accommodated |
| before eight-thirty in the evening when the first | | | | them and others - there followed a proliferation |
| sea plants made a belated appearance. At ten | | | | of the great carboniferous forests, as well as the |
| minutes to nine that night the jellyfish pops up it's | | | | emergence of winged insects. The famous |
| bizarre head along with many of it's diploblastic | | | | dinosaurs materialised at 23:00 and held sway for |
| (only two layers of tissue, as opposed to the | | | | three-quarters of an hour, vanishing in an instant, |
| more streamlined three layers which all of us | | | | being replaced by mammals. Then, in the dying |
| ((humans and animals)) bear today) Ediacaran | | | | gasp of the day, humans rocked onto the scene |
| buddies. Just after nine o'clock, the Alien | | | | with just one minute and seventeen seconds left! |