life-time on Earth is a mickle like that song by Chumbawamba . It gets criticise down , but it get up again , often in a very dissimilar room . Through clock time , species have figured out how to get on Edwin Herbert Land from the water system , how to fly , how to give birth to last young , and , most significantly , how to persevere through millennia . But some epoch of Earth were simply more awful than others , and we ’ve ranked our top seven here . All of them nicely capsulize what can happen in just a few million years .

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