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Scientists Built a Tool That Lets You Look Millions of Years Into Your Home’s Past

What did your patch of Earth look like?

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We’ve all wondered what our homes looked like 10 years before we got there, or 50 years, 1000 years, or millions of years. Just a century ago, it could’ve been dirt roads and a general store. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the place you call home could have quite literally been somewhere else entirely on the face of the Earth. But where was it? That’s the aim of a new online tool, Paleolatitude, built by researchers from Utrecht University, detailed in a study published in PLOS One.

The online tool lets users track any physical place on earth back through 320 million years of geological........

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