200 million years ago most of the earth's land was one huge continent named Pangaea, meaning "all lands." All the seas were one huge ocean called Panthalassa, meaning "all seas." Millions of years ago, New York City was on the equator. Antarctica was once a rain forest millions of ...
Animated map of how Earth will look in 250 million yearsGene Kim
Floristic regions reflect the geographic organization of floras and provide essential tools for biological studies. Previous global floristic regions are generally based on floristic endemism, lacking a phylogenetic consideration that captures floristic
The Kingdom of Judah It is quite a remarkable achievement for a country of 5.8 million people to maintain their sovereignty amidst such conflict. Israel was re-established in 1948, and the population has steadily grown since. The tiny nation stretches 290 miles from north to south, and 85 mi...
Since the birth of the earth, the crustal plates have kept separating and merging. Each convergence creates scars on the earth - mountains. About 65 million years ago, the Tibetan Plateau was still at the bottom of the Neo-Tethys Ocean, the second-largest ocean in the world at that time....
The geographical survey in Antarctica couldn’t have been made without an aerial technology. Such expertise did not exist million of years ago. The last period of ice-free condition in Antarctica ended about 6000 years ago. Now the puzzle is: Who mapped the Queen Maud Land of Antarctica 6000...
of the continental Indian plate and the continental Eurasian plate. The landmasses began colliding around 50 million years ago, thickening the crust to great extents. The result of this process, theTibetan Plateau, is perhaps the largest and highest landform to have ever existed on Earth. ...
maps by C.R. Scotese of the PALEOMAP Project, Webster's map can show you how the earth under your current address changed over the course of some 750 million years. It's humbling to know 400 million years ago, the woods outside my home in Ithaca, New York, w...
Over 4,500 internal administrative divisions of countries Natural Earth showsde factoboundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties paired with the POV worl...
The map also shows that over the next 50 years parts of Wales and northeast England will see big changes to their climate. Developed by a scientist at the University of Cincinnati, the map uses 50 years of public climate data from 50, 000 international weather stations around the Earth. ...