EONpedia

From the beginning to the present.

Hadean

Earth's earliest phase — a molten planet cooling into the first crust and first oceans.

Archean

The age of the first single-celled life — prokaryotic microbes and the earliest stromatolites.

Proterozoic

Oxygen accumulates in the atmosphere; eukaryotic cells and the first multicellular life emerge.

Phanerozoic

The eon of 'visible life' — from the Cambrian explosion to the present; plants, animals, humans.