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someperson
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What does MYa mean?
I thought it meant million years ago,but he writes "400MYa ago" and "200Mya [...]
from now
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nbclark
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Megayears ago. It is a million years.. .
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/megayear
nextstep
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Maybe he meant "MYa" to mean megayears? I'm guessing this because he also used "GYa", which could be gigayears.
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I thought it meant million years ago,but he writes "400MYa ago" and "200Mya [...] from now"