millennia
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Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
For millennia, people have transformed landscapes, forcing wildlife to adjust to cities, farms, roads, and other human activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kings, presidents and military academies have wrestled with versions of that question for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
During these long millennia people occasionally ate wheat grain, but this was a marginal part of their diet.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
