Everything in the universe has a beginning. Here are some of those things that are still with us and when they began, listed by year:
- -13,700,000,000 the universe, time, space, matter, energy
- -13,300,000,000 stars
- -12,600,000,000 Milky Way Galaxy
- -4,570,000,000 Sun (but 30% dimmer than it is now)
- -4,540,000,000 Earth
- -4,500,000,000 Moon
- -4,400,000,000 clouds, rain, the oceans begin to fill
- -4,031,000,000 rocks (oldest known)
- -4,000,000,000 life, DNA
- -2,500,000,000 breathing oxygen
- -1,200,000,000 sex
- -900,000,000 swimming
- -580,000,000 eyes, animals with bilateral symmetry
- -550,000,000 brains
- -540,000,000 hearts
- -480,000,000 fish
- -450,000,000 Appalachian Mountains
- -425,000,000 land plants
- -385,000,000 trees
- -365,000,000 legs, lungs
- -220,000,000 lizards
- -164,000,000 hair
- -160,000,000 birds, feathers
- -150,000,000 North America as a continent
- -125,000,000 flowers
- -100,000,000 South America and Africa as continents
- -92,000,000 ants
- -80,000,000 Rocky Mountains
- -66,000,000 grass
- -55,000,000 Australia as a continent
- -25,000,000 seeing in colour (among our ancestors)
- -3,500,000 hands, technology, walking on two feet, eating meat (among our ancestors)
- -1,200,000 black skin…
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