Cell division and death – 1 billion years ago
A new skin – 400 million years ago
Fungal feast – 300 million years ago
Plundering plesiosaur – 200 million years ago
Soaring pterosaur – 150 million years ago
Surrounded by allosaurs – 145 million years ago
Turtle landing – 100 million years ago
Hatching – 58 million years ago
Seven-foot cock of the walk – 50 million years ago
A crunchy snack – 40 million years ago
The grieving whale – 15 million years ago
Strange beasts – 2 million years ago
King of the desert – 1 1/2 million years ago
Stolen by the wind – 1 million years ago
Musing by the campfire – 200,000 years ago
Neanderthal wedding – 75,000 years ago
Staying behind – 35,000 years ago
The first fishhook - 30,000 years ago
Shaman’s song – 20,000 years ago
Arms race on the Nile – 10,000 B.C.
Surrounded in Texas – 9,000 B.C.
The mountain spirit’s face – 4,500 B.C.
Along the Yellow River – 4,000 B.C.
Flight from Malta – 3,000 B.C.
Drought – 2,200 B.C.
Minoan melancholy – 1,500 B.C.
On an Indian plain – 1,000 B.C.
Olmec delinquent – 800 B.C.
Mayan home cooking – A.D. 400
Mother of the world – A.D. 800
A woman’s path – 1200
Boomerang – 1400
Elizabethan justice – 1600
Freedom – 1800
A ray of light – 1900
Depression – 1945
Epiphany – 2020
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