The year 180,000,000 BC was a significant year in the Once Upon a Time... franchise.
Events[]
- Archaeopteryx, the first primitive bird, takes flight.[1]
- Pangaea begins to split and drift apart as per Wegener's theory.[1]
Trivia[]
- Although the series claims all the continents were in a single mass up to the time of the dinosaurs, it is now known the continents come together and split apart in cycles that go on for hundreds of millions of years.
- Now, it is thought that Archaeopteryx lived in 150,000,000 BC.
- Archaeopteryx is now known to have had wings that were white with a black tip, through detailed studies of its feathers. The first bird also lived some 50 million years before the evolution of snakes, and lived in coastal lagoons in what is now Germany.
References[]
| Secondary Era | |
| Years | 250,000,000 BC | 180,000,000 BC | 70,000,000 BC |
|---|---|
| Events | Extinction of the Dinosaurs |