If you’re familiar with the concept of plate tectonics (the outermost layer of our planet, where we live on, is a collection of plates that continuously move around each other), then it’s no surprise to you that millions of years ago, your present-day address was not in the same place it is now. Thanks to an online tool, we can now trace where a location on Earth was a long time ago. The Ancient Earth simulation allows you to type in the name of a city, highlight it, and then select an ancient date from a drop-down menu to see where it was back at some point in the distant past, as How Stuff Works detailed:
Ancient Earth was created by Ian Webster, a software engineer who is the founder and chief technology officer of Zenysis, a San Francisco-based company that does analytics and visualizations of data designed to improve the delivery of health care in developing countries. He previously worked as an engineer at Google and also at NASA and for other companies in the space industry. He's also the creator of Dinosaurpictures.org, which allows you to search through a database of images of the ancient creatures, and even view a random dinosaur.
In addition to being interested in paleogeography, Webster also likes to explore the power of turning data into images.
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Where my apartment is, I imagine T-rex's and Velociraptors battling
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