Where was YOUR home in the time of the dinosaurs? The incredible interactive map shows how the Earth’s continents have shifted from 750 million years ago to today

Let’s be honest, we’ve all wondered.

Obviously, Britain wasn’t Britain when dinosaurs roamed the earth, but where exactly was your home in the days of T.Rex, Stegosaurus and Diplodocus?

Well, with an interactive map you can go back in time to find out.

Ancient Globe shows how continents split and reshaped as oceans moved back and forth over 750 million years of our planet’s history.

It also contains a number of tools that make it easy to learn more about the earth, such as: B. where the first reptiles lived or when the first flower bloomed.

The map is based on research from Northern Arizona University and shows that people are “only a fraction of the story,” said Ian Webster, the former Google engineer behind it.

The website allows you to jump back and forth between the extinction of the dinosaurs and the appearance of the first hominids – the primate family that includes humans and our fossil ancestors.

You do this by entering your location on the map, which then feeds it into plate tectonic models and allows users See where countries were hundreds of millions of years ago.

For example, you can see where the UK, US, Europe, Africa, Australia, Russia, India, China and more were located during the time of the dinosaurs.

It includes the Early Triassic period 240 million years ago to the Jurassic period 170 million years ago and the Cretaceous period 90 and 105 million years ago.

At that time, Africa had a vast ocean flowing along its northeastern edge, while Australia and Antarctica almost touched each other.

The map also shows what the Earth looked like when the dinosaurs were wiped out by a giant asteroid 66 million years ago.

When searching for locations, the site’s rotating 3D globe shows where on Earth that area was millions of years ago.

It even shows which dinosaurs lived in the area you’re looking for.

For example, Eustreptospondylus was a carnivore that lived in what is now England during the Jurassic period.

Another species of dinosaur, Neovenator, lived in what is now the United Kingdom and France.

Summaries of each period show what happened at different stages, such as the early Cambrian period 540 million years ago.

Also of particular importance is the formation of Pangea about 280 million years ago, when the entire landmass of the Earth merged into a single supercontinent surrounded by an ocean, Panthalassa.

The east coast of the United States would have bordered North Africa, while the US Gulf Coast would have bordered Cuba.

Mr Webster told MailOnline that he created the interactive map as a useful educational tool for younger generations.

“I chose this map because I find ancient history and geology fascinating,” added the software engineer.

“It’s hard to imagine what the earth used to look like. Putting this knowledge into a form we’re all used to—an interactive globe—can go a long way toward becoming a geologic history teaching tool.

The map is based on research from Northern Arizona University and shows that people are “only a fraction of the story”, said Ian Webster, the former Google engineer behind it. This is what the earth looks like today

The map ranges from the Early Triassic 240 million years ago to the Cretaceous 90 (photo) and 105 million years ago

It also shows the Jurassic period 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs flourished and marine life diversified

Webster created the map as a web application that sits on top of another map that visualizes geologic models created by geologist and paleogeographer Christopher Scotese.

These models describe the evolution of plate tectonics 750 million years ago, around the time green algae first evolved in Earth’s oceans.

You can also search for what our planet looked like when it got its first shells, coral reefs, vertebrates, land plants and animals, insects and reptiles.

You can also jump to the first grasses, the first humanoids, when the supercontinents Pannotia and Pangea existed and when the dinosaurs became extinct.

Linked to the site is the Dinosaur Database, which is full of facts and figures about the ancient and terrifying creatures that once roamed the earth.

The site even reveals which dinosaurs used to live near the area you searched for. For example, Eustreptospondylus (shown in this artist’s rendering) was a carnivore that lived in what is now England during the Jurassic period

Another species of dinosaur, Neovenator (pictured), lived in what is now Britain and France