What really happened was that Man (and women) were created when the Earth was created. They started building fires at night to cook the animals that they had killed during the day. The fire put evil carbon dioxide into the new, pristine atmosphere causing the Sun to heat things up which in turn killed the animals. Hence a mass extinction. Thus it has been thru the ages. Man and Woman have polluted the pristine Earth an eventually most of the animals (except those in the deep ocean and those in caves and under rocks) were killed off. We are in the 4th or 5th cycle. But not to worry, the protestors and the aging hippies will save the Earth and turn it into a paradise.
“We are in the 4th or 5th cycle.”
Look up OOPARTS. Out Of Place ARTifactS. Kinda freaky. Many things are listed there, among them, people have found things in solid rock with no reasonable explanation of how they got there.