Y’all need to check this out: a video experiment in scale, condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute. The video itself isn’t embeddable, so instead, clicking on the image above takes you to the Seed permalink page for watching. 

From Claire L Evans at Seed Magazine: “The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.” (via Seed, with thanks to @yenn for pointing it out.)