He planet What we know has changed a lot over the years. In the past there was only one continent, the same forms of life did not exist as today and the inhabitants who dominated the Earth were none other than the dinosaurs.
With continental drift, our planet currently has a distribution of continents very different and also a wider variety of species. Despite not having experienced the change, we have the opportunity to learn more about the past of our neighborhoods, cities and countries.
The desire to learn about ancient fauna and flora leads us to a platform interactive called Ancient Earth Globe, which allows us to travel between 20 and 750 million years back to find out what geographical position and state our lands were in, who inhabited them and what vegetation was the most common, among other curiosities.
The page works similar to Google Maps and Google Earth, in which although routes and streets do not appear, we find a 3D world globe in which all you have to do is select the time you want to visit at the top and search for the exact place in the bar on the left. Once marked, when you click search it shows you its geolocationwhat the landscape of the area was like and what elements and dinosaurs it had.
You can find out information about them by clicking on their name, and see everything from what they ate to what habitats they were in or how many fossils have been found of them. In the case of several neighborhoods of Madrid how could it be Carabanchelthe Losillasaurus, Draconyx and Arcovenator mainly lived, the first two being herbivores and the last carnivore.
If your curiosity goes beyond these enormous beings, you can also learn about the most common flowers in your neighborhood, or the most predominant insects and how they got there. An example is the flowers of the Salamanca neighborhoodwhich began to spread 120 million years ago in the Cretaceouslowerwith the disappearance of the ice sheets. The first insects to appear did so 400 million years ago and were similar to silverfish.
If you go back 150 million years you can see how the dinosaurs dominated the planet, while if you go forward a few million years more to 66 million, you will find the period in which the mass extinction of the dinosaur occurred. Cretaceous-Paleogenewhere most species disappeared.
The main attraction of this platform is that it offers the opportunity to learn everything about a location over the years. This allows us to see how countries and cities Today they were submerged under the ocean or were part of enormous continents such as Pannotia 600 million years ago and Pangea 240 million ago, which grouped almost all the lands in the same block. In an entertaining and educational way, you will not only be able to find out where your city was millions of years ago, but also see what reptiles were roaming around.