SAN FRANCISCO — Ever looked at a map of Earth millions of years ago and wondered where certain modern-day locations were supposed to be?<br /><br />The Ancient Earth globe is a cool little online tool curated by Ian Webster — the same genius who meticulously compiled the Dinosaur Database.<br /><br />Webster's interactive map allows users to see how the earth has evolved from 750 million years ago to the present. To do so, he adapted a software used by geologists to visualize plate tectonics, and overlaid his map with modern political boundaries. <br /><br />It's got the added bonus of an address search, so you can pin a location and see where it was during the ice age, the age of dinosaurs, or even post-extinction.<br /><br />The site has neat extras, like short descriptions on the bottom left hand side that lets you know exactly what the conditions are during any given time period.<br /><br />Alternatively, there's an option to jump through the stages of evolution, like when the first vertebrates appeared, or the first primates, or hominids.
