You can see the location of your home in a digital globe.The digital globe was created by scientist Ian Webster.This globe illustrates how much Earth has changed over the past hundreds of millions of year.Insider Sustainability: The latest news on sustainability culture and business. Loading Click Sign up to receive marketing emails and other offers from Insider.Planet Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Although 750,000,000 years may seem insignificant in comparison to the Earth's age, many things can happen in the span of 750,000,000 years.300 million years ago, the entire world was one continent: Pangaea. 200 to 150 millions years ago, it split into two parts: Laurasia or Gondwana.Our planet evolved over time, thanks to the slow shifting of our plates tectonics.It is possible to view the Ancient Earth's digital globe and see where it was 750 million years ago, 150 million years before multi-cellular life began.Ian Webster, a scientist from the University of Toronto, created a digital globe that shows where and when you lived in Earth's past using data from G-Plates software.This map is composed of 91 paleogeographic maps that span the Phanerozoic to late Neoproterozoic periods. It illustrates the ancient configurations of ocean basins and continents as well as important features such as mountains, shallow oceans, and deep oceans.The pale pink marker indicates where New York City would be at various stages in history.As plants evolved, land life was becoming more complicated at this point. Fish developed strong fins which eventually became limbs. Ancient EarthThe first vertebrates walked on land around 400 million years ago. The Earth's landscape was very different from what it is today.Small dinosaurs and the first flying vertebrates were already beginning to appear at this point. Ancient Earth20 million years ago, Africa was home to the first hominids. Ancient EarthNew York City was 220 million years before the first dinosaurs walked Earth. It was much closer to Morocco then it is now.Although the North American and South American continents may seem familiar, the hominids are just beginning to emerge at this stage.Researchers believe that Earth's plates could eventually fuse into a supercontinent in 300 million years. They've given the name Amasia to their findings.
