470 million years ago · approximate date
Life reaches land
The first plants take hold on bare continents.
Simple plants spread from the water onto rock and soil, slowly greening the continents. Their roots and decay built the first soils, and animals soon followed them out of the sea.
- Period
- Ordovician
- Earth's history already passed
- 89.6476 percent
- 4.54 kilometres
- 470 metres from the end
- One day
- 21:30:55
- One year
- November 24, 05:07
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Source to be verified