A unit of one million years, used in geology and astronomy.
1However the last great dip was more than 20 million years ago.
2The answer is simple: 300 million years ago, there was no Atlantic.
3Some 55 million years ago, the conditions would have been very different.
4It's the result of volcanic activity only three hundred million years ago.
5However, scientists predicted it would only happen in the next million years.
6Several degrees vs. 100 and several centuries vs. a few million years.
7Mosquitoes first appeared 170 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs.
8Background: Mus spretus diverged from Mus musculus over one million years ago.
9Then there were the first land plants, about 450 million years ago.
10After seven and a half million years of computation, it replied 'forty-two'.
11About two million years ago, our hominin ancestors began to change again.
12One analysis suggests that the split began around 5 million years ago.
13Therefore it took 800 million years for life to appear on Earth.
14This is an increase of about 50 million years on earlier calculations.
15They flourished, scientists here think, between two and five million years ago.
16I never in a million years thought this would happen to me.
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