5hortieex3+QUATERNARY+PERIOD

**__Quaternary Period__** = ** The quaternary period was an amazing and extraordinary period that made what earth is today. ** = = ** In my era, the ice from the ice ages started to melt and Homo sapiens evolved. This all happened 1.8 million years ago. ** = = ** The era before us witch was tertiary helped from the quaternary period. ** = = ** Tertiary had most of what we have today, horses, bears, chimps and more. ** = = ** Scientist don’t know what will happen after the quaternary period because we are currently in this period, ** = = ** but I think that the climate change can affect how the earth changes during time. ** = = ** Global warming can play a big part in how the earth can make another time period after the quaternary period. ** = = = = The climate was cold in North America because of all the ice from the ice ages was melting. = = The continents were not that much different from what we see today because the quaternary period is the last time period. = = Massachusetts was melting off from all the ice in the ice ages and the climate was different from today. = = = =Since the earth was very similar to what we have today, it is easy to figure out what kind of fossils there was in that time. A lot of animals that used to be alive were extinct and they were buried in a lot of dirt underground.= = ** Scientists found the fossils and found out that most fossils were once alive and are now extinct. They found fossils of //Homo habilis// and mammoths that were extinct many years ago. ** = = ** This gave scientist clues on how humans were when they first evolved. ** = = = =[|Check out all the fossil during my time period .]=

Here are some fossils that we examined at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

= [|Check out the cave paintings. !!!!!!] =

The main thing that drew me to pick quaternary was that I REALLY want to know how the humans evolved onto this earth and how it developed into what we have today.

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