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Prehistory and monuments
Life on the Moving Map
540 million years of drifting continents, from Pangaea onwards, with fossil animals from trilobites to dinosaurs where they lived.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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