Where was your city in the age of dinosaurs? Check in one click

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Just type the name of your city in a newly created application You will be able to see where it was in the time of the dinosaurs and even more distant times.. just open this link and enjoy a journey into the farthest past. However, there are some Spanish islands (and even cities) whose data cannot be served by the app.

The appearance of Earth as we know it is relatively recent. The landmasses and seas we see today, including Eurasia, the Americas, Africa, Antarctica, and Oceania, are enormous. tectonic plates They fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Again, these puzzle pieces are moving so slow. Sure, it’s not an act to be admired in a human lifetime, but on the scale of millions of years, such constant dynamics could render the planet completely unrecognizable millions of years from now.

Earth 170 million years ago IW

The app was created by Ian Webster with help from plate tectonics data and paleogeographic maps from CR Scotese of the PALEOMAP Project.

Displayed on the main screen is an image of our planet from 240 million years ago, during the supercontinent Pangea era, but images from 750 million years ago to the present are selectable. Moreover, If you hold down the ‘left’ or ‘right’ keys on your keyboard on a desktop computer, you can even see the continents drift apart. and eventually they take the form they have today.

The map also includes options that allow you to see key moments in the history of life on Earth, such as the extinction of the first vertebrates, the first hominids, and the dinosaurs.

Reference link: https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

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