Do You Want To Know Where Your Hometown Was Located On Earth 750 Million Years Ago?

This interactive map of Earth will show you where your city or hometown was 750 million years ago and what type of animals lived nearby. By Amitha Ameen

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An interactive map created by a palaeontologist, Ian Webster, will let users track where modern-day landmarks were situated hundreds of millions of years ago. Think back to when dinosaurs and giant turtles walked the earth that was filled with overgrown plants and was just one supercontinent.

Thanks to Webster’s maps, you can now know how the areas around your city or hometown or important landmarks looked like in the ancient days. All you need to do is type in the name of the place you are looking for and the map will pinpoint the location at a particular era in time, as far back as 750 million years.

The map also has other interactive tools that let you learn about interesting things like when the first flower bloomed or where the first reptiles lived. “It shows that our environment is dynamic and can change. The history of Earth is longer than we can conceive, and the current arrangement of plate tectonics and continents is an accident of time. It will be very different in the future, and Earth may outlast us all,” Webster told CNN.

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When someone looks for a location on the map, the 3D rotatable globe on the website will show exactly where the area was situated on Earth back then and also what kind of dinosaurs used to live nearby.

“It is meant to spark fascination and hopefully respect for the scientists that work every day to better understand our world and its past. It also contains fun surprises, for example how the US used to be split by a shallow sea, the Appalachians used to be very tall mountains comparable to the Himalayas, and that Florida used to be submerged,” CNN quoted him as further saying.

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