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After the impact of 65,000,000 years ago, Earth's sky was dark with dust and ash.  Plant life died without sunlight,
and the food chain promptly collapsed.   Almost every creature larger than a chicken perished.

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DINOSAURS GO EXTINCT:
 
 
The CENOZOIC ERA takes us from the K-T mass extinction to the present.   Known as the Age of the Mammals, it has been an Era of cooler temperatures, with ice ages emerging during recent EPOCHS. 

There is also less oxygen in the atmosphere, though only a few percent less.   Humans, as we know them, have arisen in the scant last 5-million years.  Our hominid ancestors evolved into modern man just 250-thousand years ago.  Of the twenty or more branches of humans,  only one branch survives today -- Homo sapiens.

During the last 9,000 years Humankind has demolished the face of the planet.   We have the power to destroy Earth; we also have the power to remake Earth a paradise.  Should we destroy it, then we humans will surely perish, and much life will perish with us, leading to yet another mass extinction.

Once cannot help but contemplate what strange and wondrous life forms will replace us.


Tertiary Peroid:   Major mountain ranges form.  Early grasses appear.  Mammals rise to dominant the Earth.  Dinosaur chickens grow beaks.
                    Paleocene Epoch:  Lower sea levels.  Modern mountain ranges form.  Flowering plants, birds, and mammals begin displacing extinct species.. 
                    Eocene Epoch:      Warmer climate.   Mammals flourish, become more diverse and complex. 
                     Oligocene Epoch:   Colder climate.  Vast grasslands arise.  Mammals adapt and evolve to meet the changes, develop ever larger brains. 
                      Miocene Epoch:    Africa, Arabia, and Eurasia crash together.  Humanlike apes appear. 
                      Pliocene Epoch:     North and South America merge.  The Arctic ice cap forms.  Widespread migration of mammals between continents 
                                                           occurs.  Early humans evolve in Africa, very apelike, but more intelligent than apes. 

Quaternary Period:  Series of ice ages emerge.  Modern humans evolve. 
                                   Pleistocene Epoch:  Glaciers advance and retreat in Northern Hemisphere.  Modern humans use fire, forge crude tools and weapons. 
                                   Holocene Epoch:     Climate warms.   Recorded history arises.  Humans build cities, conquer the atom, ride rockets to the Moon.  Human 
                                                                  technology and population severely deplete other life on Earth, a new mass extinction threatens the entire planet. 
                                                        Aliens in UFOs appear -- after seeing how we treat other species, they fear annihilation -- ET goes home.
                                                        However, ET did like our chickens.   They said chicken meat tasted just like chicken.

. Next,   we  have a little fun with the future, called:   One Step Beyond.    ( Play some errie music. )



 
 


ONE STEP BEYOND:

The author of this time classification was tempted to make yet another chart -- a chart of the future entitled, "The AfterTime Era."
  Within this chart of the future would've been the HKYAG Epoch ( HumansKissYourAssesGood-byeocene Epoch ),
 denoted by a horrid mass extinction at the H-H boundry ( Holocene-HKYAG boundary. )

 The ensuing epoch would promptly emerge as the Age of the 10-pound Cockroach, lasting 14-million years.

The Age of the saber-toothed Rodent would follow, lasting some 7-millon years.

Next would come the Age of the mound-building Hog, which would last until the year 22,000,001 A.D..
This brief Age would be called the Hogocene Epoch.

  Fifty-million years later would come the rise of rhino-sized high-tech chickens that create a chicken utopia.
The chickens, tired of not being able to fly, invent feathered flying machines, which they gleefully use to
swoop down upon ranches of domesticated cockroaches, rodents and hogs, which they then feed upon.
This Age would be called the Cluckogene Period.  Chicken power would then last forever.

However, the woman in my life suggests humankind's fall will not lead to the Age of the Chicken, but to the Age of the Orchids.
So be it.  I shall not be the one to argue against the prolific diversity of the mighty orchid.

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The episode called,  Human-like Hominids Arise  is not yet ready to go, but it will soon appear.
Be cool, my worthy friends.  And. please,  do explore all the other episodes of the Time Stream.  Okay?