What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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What did Earth look like X million years ago?
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#2If I change the date in the top right, does it change the list of dinosaurs or just change the map?
It would be nice to show small pictures of the dinosaurs instead of just links to the main page of each dinosaur (that has a few pictures).
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#3If I change the date in the top right, does it change the list of dinosaurs or just change the map? It would be nice to show small pictures of the dinosaurs instead of just links to the main page of each dinosaur (that has a few pictures).
It doesn't seem to. It does, however, change the epoch description in the bottom left, which is well-written and informative. The arrow keys are cool for moving through eras.
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#4Fish, apparently.
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#5Only 600 millions years ago my Central European city was a beach front to the mega-Ocean. Would be sweet to see it but the lack of infrastructure could get annoying.
Very fun project.
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#6For living in "Dinosaurland", the list of dinosaurs that lived near me is pretty low
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#7It it doesn't answer the question, "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"
Seriously, I clicked on the link thinking I'd be able to get a list of the dinosaurs that are believed to have lived in my hometown. As cool as this link is, it doesn't answer "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"
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#8I can't help but take depictions of dinosaurs like https://dinosaurpictures.org/Streptospondylus-pictures at face value, until I catch myself and remember they may be quite wrong considering we are limited to fossils: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/science-m... (tl;dr https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-an...).
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#9It it doesn't answer the question, "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?" Seriously, I clicked on the link thinking I'd be able to get a list of the dinosaurs that are believed to have lived in my hometown. As cool as this link is, it doesn't answer "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"
Others are commenting like it does though, I couldn't get a dinosaur list either fwiw.
Re: What did Earth look like X million years ago?
#10It it doesn't answer the question, "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?" Seriously, I clicked on the link thinking I'd be able to get a list of the dinosaurs that are believed to have lived in my hometown. As cool as this link is, it doesn't answer "Which dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"
If you enter a place it will provide a list of fossils potentially nearby.
It seems limited and not quite as cool as as say, showing a field guide of dinos in your area during a time period.