Our universe just celebrated its 13.8 billionth birthday. Our home in that vast universe, planet earth, is about 4.5 billion years old. The earliest evidence of primitive life in this home [single cells] dates back about 3.5 billion years. 50 million years ago [which is only 1.4% of that 3.5 Bln.] our world was already a beautiful ecosystem; everything was there: mammals, fish, reptiles, birds, flowers, rivers, jungles, clouds, everything.
Except for humans…..
We, inhabitants of our home in the universe, have great difficulties conceptualizing and relating to these time frames. Funny, we can very well relate to $10.000.- but 10.000 years is practically beyond our capacity to relate to. Let alone 50 million years.
So let´s use a trick to make it possible to relate to those “tiny” 50 million years on a geological scale and equal those years with 24 hours in a day. How does our history fit in that geological time scale?