An atlas of our changing planet
A world in
constant becoming.
Mountains rise. Oceans vanish. Life finds a way. Travel through 4.5 billion years of Earth's extraordinary story.
Move through time
Drag the timeline to explore
Drag the timeline to explore
A living planet, in motion
EARTH / 4.54 GA
AN INTERACTIVE ATLAS45° 00′ 00″ N
The deep time explorer
The beginning of Earth
4.54billion years ago
Scale
TODAYThe world
Life & climate
A moment in time
A story written in life
From single cells
to everything.
Life's history is not a straight line. Select a milestone to visit it on the timeline.
A note on the map
Deep time, imagined.
The continents are simplified, interpolated shapes, not precise paleogeographic reconstructions. Ancient geography and sea levels are uncertain; this atlas is an invitation to explore, not a scientific map.
Further reading: PALEOMAP Project / Scotese, GPlates, International Chronostratigraphic Chart, and Haq et al. sea-level curve.