The Earth is 4.567 billion years old, and many incredible events have occurred during its long and storied history – the formation of the oceans, the origin of life, the first animals, the rise and fall of dinosaurs,  and the appearance and evolution of our own species, just to name a few. Take a walk along the Charles River between Massachusetts Avenue and Ames Street on the MIT side of Memorial Drive as you explore a scaled-down version of the geologic timeline where each inch represents 240,000 years. Signs along the way will show you when some of these amazing changes and innovations have occurred throughout Earth’s history and will give you a new perspective on the immensity of geologic time.

Those with web-enabled smart phones will be able to explores each event in more detail on our accompanying website.

* To schedule class tours please sign up: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZYMP97X
- we have limited availability so tours will be scheduled on a first-come first-serve basis

For more details and tour times, please check out our website at: http://complex-life.org/CSF2012