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What happened 42 million years ago?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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Previous answer: We Were All Monkeys.

This previous statement is about as wrong as you can get without believing in magical invisible friends.

Monkeys are many millions of years away and human (and monkey) ancestors, at this point, can best be described as ratlike.

It would be the late Jurassic period, specifically the Oxfordian stage. Dinosaurs are absolutely the dominant life form on the planet with the massive sauropods dominating (although mighty brachiosaurus was gone for some 6-7 million years by this point). The first birds and saurians (crocs, gators) also appear around this time

The supercontinent Gondwana continued its westward migration, having started some 20-25 million years previous to the requested year

It was actually a relativel peaceful time, as the last major extinction was 20-25 million years previous and the next would be in another 15 million years

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THAT IS NOT TRUE AT ALL!!!!! The earth is only 6,000 years old. READ YOUR BIBLE!!!!
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That is the Precambrian era, when the earth and moon formed. the continents were merging together to form super-continents, and simple single cellular organisms began the first life on the planet,

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Now, we do know a great deal thanks to the fossil record

It was the Calabrian stage of the Pleistocene. 1,000,000 years is not particularly significant - the end of that stage had the poles reverse and a plunge into an ice age

Animals would be largely familiar, including mastodons, smilodons and giant sloths. Not to mention Homo erectus, one of our more successful ancestors.

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Earth was in the Lutetian stage of the Eocene epoch of the Paleogene Period. See link.

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In about 204 million years ago, an asteroid hit earth causing a mass extinction. It was the end of the Triassic Period and the beginning of the Jurassic Period.

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