Scientists have created an online interactive map that reveals where your homeland was millions of years before the continental drift.
CNN reports that California paleontologist Ian Webster has created a new map in a web application based on the geological models created by Christopher Stois.
How does it work?
You can rotate the globe with your trackpad or mouse to see how the continents spread around the world in different places.
The map lets you go back in time with predefined time increments.
One such increase is the rough date on which the first flowers grew or the time of the first buds.
It gives users the ability to search for a city name in a search bar to see it on the map and track its movements over time.
For example, the English capital, London, was discovered to be one of the oldest unidentified continents and traveled around the world, before finally splitting into part of the island territory known as England.
Users can also get guides on what creatures were on Earth at specific points in history.
For example, 220 million years ago, during a period known as the Middle Triassic, the map explains,
“Earth is recovering from the Permian-Triassic extinction. Small dinosaurs begin to appear. Therapeutics and arcosers emerge with the first flying vertebrates. ”
‘The Earth May Overcome Us’
Webster told CNN that the map “shows that our environment is dynamic and can change.”
“Earth’s history is more than we can imagine, and the current arrangement of plate tectonics and continents is a danger of time. In the future it will be very different and the earth will overtake us all.
How can I use it?
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