4.5 Billion Years in 1 Hour

Learn more about how complex life evolved with our new, elaborately detailed Timeline of Evolution Poster.

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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700+ minutes of Kurzgesagt Soundtracks by Epic Mountain:

The Soundtrack of this video:

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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

0:00 Intro
0:51 Hadean
8:04 Eoarchean
13:20 Paleoarchean
18:35 Mesoarchean
23:51 Neoarchean
27:47 Siderian
30:24 Rhyacian
33:42 Orosirian
36:58 Statherian
39:38 Calymmian
42:15 Ectasian
44:52 Stenian
47:30 Tonian
51:12 Cryogenian
52:18 Ediacaran
53:35 Cambrian
54:17 Ordovician
54:49 Silurian
55:08 Devonian
55:55 Carboniferous
56:43 Permian
57:21 Triassic
58:02 Jurassic
58:46 Cretaceous
59:48 Paleogene
1:00:21 Neogene
1:00:38 Quaternary
1:00:45 Ending

[kurzgesagt]

Learn more about how complex life evolved with our new, elaborately detailed Timeline of Evolution Poster.

[SPCv]

1 hour of animating must’ve taken years, the fact that we got this for free is insane

[Jeracraft]

I love this so much, took me 10 million years just to write this comment!

[winterborne_]

Earth had such a killer soundtrack during its formative years. I bet every microorganism was rocking out hard to this music.

[Araaraboop]

Hi!!! I'm a teacher. I showed this video to my students along with a worksheet I made where they had to draw what they saw on the screen. They enjoyed it. The best part was when life became multicellar and time felt as if it moved faster. The students were like "slow it down!!!!" Thank you guys at Kurzgesagt for all you do :)

[FunAndGamesAnimation]

Props to the cameraman for standing around for 4.5 billion years for an hour of entertainment

[toxicdravenmain]

Average walk to school that my parents had to go through

[alexanderkuria]

This is by far the most wholesome comments section I've ever seen

[PJBgamer]

"Don't blink, or you might miss all of human history." That line feels so powerful, it really puts things into perspective.

[gamemeister]

Man the fact that ALL of human history is not even 1 second of this video is utterly astonishing and puts life into perspective so well.

[SynchronizorVideos]

Absolute masterpiece. This would make a dope TV screensaver.

[kainer]

Its taken 19 years, but Ive finally found the best video on YouTube

[ChrisForThought]

this is an instant classic. coming back here every day for when i'm doing emails/ any tedious tasks

[angelineang]

if 1 normal length video takes 1000 hours this would AT LEAST be 10000 hours extra. this channel is the best

[artimalia]

It is very dreadful that humanity just happened at the last second but has enough power to create the 6th mass extinction

[tdcsguy]

With all the (deserved) praise the animation team gets for this, I feel the need to specifically give a shout out to the composers for this one. The music is a seamless journey as well. Kudos!

[ladyrabahber]

As a geologist, I really like how this video just intuitively gives a grasp on geological timescales

[autismcenteral]

A video like this focusing on just the history of multicellular life would be interesting

[cloudisx]

Bro, Your voice is so calming I fell asleep in the middle of this video 😭

[Halgirwn]

Watched this in one go with my six year old son. He intently watched the whole thing with lots of questions, and we talked about everything that happened. Such a cool video, will definitely give this several rewatches.