Man discovering fire seems so long ago that it’s almost at the dawn of time. In reality, our time on Earth is barely a blink in the planet’s history.

But since billions of years is an extremely hard thing to fathom for mammals that only live about 70 to 80 years, ASAP Science is breaking it down into a unit of time that’s a bit easier to grasp: A single day. Plus, it’s animated! Check out the entire history of life on Earth below.