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Earth is 4.5 billion years old - which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video. 

We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. 

Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is. It’s the perfect background for your next party, a great way to take a break from studying, or a fascinating companion while you’re on the go 

 … and our celebration of 10 years of kurzgesagt.

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4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour

Learn more about how complex life evolved with our new, elaborately detailed Timeline of Evolution Poster. Available only on the kurzgesagt shop here: https://shop.kgs.link/timeline Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-timeline/startseite?authuser=2 Earth is 4.5 billion years old - which is approximately the same amount of time it took us to create this video. We’ve scaled the complete timeline of our Earth’s life into our first animated movie! Every second shows about a million years of the planet’s evolution. Hop on a musical train ride and experience how long a billion years really is. It’s the perfect background for your next party, a great way to take a break from studying, or a fascinating companion while you’re on the go … and our celebration of 10 years of kurzgesagt. OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish: https://kgs.link/youtubeES French: https://kgs.link/youtubeFR Portuguese: https://kgs.link/youtubePT Arabic: https://kgs.link/youtubeAR Hindi: https://kgs.link/youtubeHI Japanese: https://kgs.link/youtubeJA Korean: https://kgs.link/youtubeKO HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT US? ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ This is how we make our living and it would be a pleasure if you support us! Get Products designed with ❤ https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ TikTok: https://kgs.link/tiktok Reddit: https://kgs.link/reddit Instagram: https://kgs.link/instagram Twitter: https://kgs.link/twitter Facebook: https://kgs.link/facebook Discord: https://kgs.link/discord Newsletter: https://kgs.link/newsletter OUR VOICE ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ The Kurzgesagt voice is from Steve Taylor: https://kgs.link/youtube-voice OUR MUSIC ♬♪ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain: Spotify: https://kgs.link/music-spotify Soundcloud: https://kgs.link/music-soundcloud Bandcamp: https://kgs.link/music-bandcamp Youtube: https://kgs.link/music-youtube Facebook: https://kgs.link/music-facebook The Soundtrack of this video: Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3u6XNdV Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/46bxD7i If you want to help us caption this video, please send subtitles to subtitle@kurzgesagt.org You can find info on what subtitle files work on YouTube here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734698?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=7296214 Thank you! 🐦🐧🐤 PATREON BIRD ARMY 🐤🐧🐦 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Many Thanks to our wonderful Patreons (from http://kgs.link/patreon) who support us every month and made this video possible: robek, Brad Christensen, Asija Newns, Pedro Castro Verdezoto, Lucas Watkins, damien perolle, Fab Cars, alomanola, MikyF2K, Mithilesh Hinge, okor, Lucan, The Gnome, Kyung Geun Kim, Misa Brass, Martin Hippenstiel, Morgan, Anthony Distel, Filip Rogowski, Gabe, Tobias Hofmann, Zaret, Bootools, David Earl, Ben Hamilton, still [Redacted], polyploidy, Elgenzay, Jared, Soda celeste, Felix, Benjamin Goodrich, Taher Rangwala, Jesse Barnes, WillowTree, DarkKot 686, Aaron Phillips, Luc Royal, Lukas Meier, esamoth, Smithius, Mermor, Laura Kühne, Tyler Fendone, gassi30, Andres Arce, Suzanne frounfelter, Akito Nozaki, SirRender, Space, Daniel Hofmeister, Dan M, Jacob Culp, ReyesX77, Aaron T Haltman, DJ Dubbes, SchnarcheNoah, Keira Standing, Steven Lamontagne, Bliss, David Anderson, Uhh Uhhh Uhhh, The Paul Family

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Patrick W. Gilmore

TEN YEARS?!?! One of my fav channels. Thank you so much for continuing to do excellent work. And very happy Philipp is healthy. Keep up the good work.

Blake Watson

What prolific decade of top-tier education and art. Here’s to the next one!

Carsten Lechte

Putting the "magnum" into the opus magnum ;-)

Tombfyre

Congrats on 10 years eh!

Filias

One hour long Kurzgesagt video? Oh my.

Jackson Walker

Please tell me this is inspiration for the next limited-edition pin! Wow team, so good.

ThearanCZ

Amazing video! It would almost deserve a long and narrow "banner-like" poster. 4,5 meters would be nearly perfect :D Ideal for schools ;-)

drollere

great video. makes the point about life in time. two suggestions post edit: (1) you don't distinguish between rocky and snowball infall, so the origin of the archaic rain and oceans is mysterious; (2) insert a thumbnail of earth (upper left or right) rotating every 20 Myr or so to show the evolving continents, which plays a crucial role in evolution. cheers.

ghostman

This was without a doubt one of the greatest timeline videos I have seen, I mean just wow. Watching the whole video was amazing.

Neil

This is the work, I am and I will gladly patron for a long time to come! Incredible video! Also happy 10th anniversary!

Team Saunders

What a fantastic Kurzgesagt way to celebrate 10 years. VoiceOver man put a shift in on this one!

Https.Chaos

Wow. WOW!!! What a treat that was!!! I'm in awe. Thank you Kurzgesagt that was incredible.

Jake Coogle

This video is great. Your voice overs are good, as usual, but for this video you should release a zero talking version as well for additional background viewings

Luc Mayrand

Wonderful animation - but this time the music deserves a special mention star: an epic soundtrack, and one I'll have playing in the background animation or not.

Chriss

I love this vid so much it’s why I became a patron ..so much work and so beautiful and did it for free ..I respect that 🤌🏻

Chriss

And I got the virus DNA and duck plush and it feels so good ,great work !

Whitefang

10 years! And what a way to celebrate. Thank you!

Patrick Suchor

Love the soundtrack. Where can I download it?

RHall

that was deeply moving - how long it took, and the struggle Gaia went through to get to this point, as well as how very short our time has been here.

Sir Slytherin

That was so interesting. I loved it.

Lisa Marie Fuqua

happy 10th year. This is amazing! Thank you for what you do!

Mike Fuchs

Forgive my ignorance, but curious. In the Hadean era the incoming meteorites are shown as burning balls. I thought meteorites only become hot and burn due to friction with our atmosphere, but was there atmosphere this early? Perhaps a better question would be when did our Earthly hellscape develop a gaseous atmosphere?

jessica feinleib

Such a wonderful job!! The sound track is a masterwork!

Tushar Kapila

Was boring in the first few minutes, wish could skip those and have a longer version - maybe 50 seconds to round up the last million years! Thank you for all the videos especialy the ones on stars, questions on life/ existential and immunity & germs videos.

Xaver Sichart

Watched the whole video - why the hell not - we´re wasting so much time on stuff that´s unimportant. Might as well get a glimpse of a feeling "how" long this rock has been around and get the tiny bitsy bit of a feel how improbable it is for me as a thinking being (I hope) to sit here and watch something like this. ... Funny story today tho: One of my kids (7 year old girl - got 4 kids altogether) asked me how the earth was created - totally unrelated to me watching this vid 2 days before. Sat her before the vid (she doesn´t even understand english), explained what the vid is about and expected she´ll get bored after 2 min. and leave... but later today she walked up to me and asked "I watched everything saw the boy in the end and said to me: "That´s us - not very long, right? But fun to watch - I´ll go eat pudding now, Papa, see ya" ... well, whadday say to that? O.o

Julien Boyer

Most of the history of the Earth, nothing happened. But when people learn about the history of the Earth, they don't really feel that. This video fixes that problem. Really well. Thanks.

Sarah Martinez

I believe that period of the solar system's formation was hot everywhere, there wasn't much cooled rock and there was a lot of collisions between bodies which also added energy and heat to the matter.

Matt

I heard there’s a video somewhere on the kurz gesagt labsays that there is a video that says about fusion energy