Was your city at risk from dinosaurs?

Kidsandliz shared some links said Thu, Jul 27th 2023 at 12:55pm ET

So this map is cool. You can pick a city and different points in time. On the far right you can adjust some settings, choose when the earth had different things. And at the top choose how many years ago. Sometimes when you enlarge the globe you see details added. Also put your cursor on the globe and move it and you can rotate the globe in different directions. It does hang on to previous cities chosen so to ditch that get rid of the “#number” at the end in the url.

I had a good laugh as I keep saying the USA would be better off if my state was part of the Gulf of Mexico. As in under it. Well in different points of time it was. Just not today and unfortunately won’t be with current global warning predictions either (it doesn’t have those predictions on this).

Map (goes back 750M years, this url is sets for today, change that at the top of the screen)
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

Article map link came from
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/map-lets-you-plug-your-address-see-how-neighborhood-has-changed-over-past-750-million-years-180971507/

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blaineg said Thu, Jul 27th 2023 at 2:45pm ET:

I didn’t get above water until the first dinosaurs. Then things didn’t change all that much.

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- @blaineg my town was under dense cloud cover that made it hard to tell if it was above or below water.
  
  Wish could turn the clouds off.
  
  That said, looks like we had beachfront living for large portions of history. With global warming we may have beachfront living again soon.
  
  OnionSoup said Thu, Jul 27th 2023 at 3:27pm ET
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- @blaineg @OnionSoup Go to the top right of the screen. You can turn off clouds, make all the globe bright instead of having some in night mode, etc.
  
  Kidsandliz said Thu, Jul 27th 2023 at 3:37pm ET
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- @blaineg @Kidsandliz not seeing that option, but I am on phone so maybe that’s why
  
  OnionSoup said Thu, Jul 27th 2023 at 3:49pm ET
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jimeezlady said Fri, Jul 28th 2023 at 8:07am ET:

Looking forward to playing with the map later, when the Grands are here!
I know that we were under water during the Permian Period. We are just north of the “Ryan Formation” and Orthacanthus teeth (among others) can still be found. I have several that my Grandmother found.

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- @jimeezlady Cool that she found ancient teeth!
  
  Kidsandliz said Fri, Jul 28th 2023 at 8:32am ET
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