LONG BEFORE
A Late Cretaceous floodplain with distant hadrosaurs among unfamiliar plants

The world was the subject

What was Earth like when dinosaurs lived here?

Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago · A different arrangement of continents · Drawing. Not a photograph.

Generated interpretation of a Late Cretaceous floodplain. Plants, coastlines, and climate are the lesson. Dinosaurs are inhabitants.

First look

What was Earth like when dinosaurs lived here?

Wonder. Then look. This is not a test.

This is not a catalogue of famous animals.

Continents sat differently. Seas covered land that is dry now.

Flowering plants were spreading. The forests would look wrong to you.

Dinosaurs lived here for a very long time. Then most of them were gone.

First look is enough. Keep looking is if you want more.

Planet field

Now

this year

The arrangement you already know. A schematic, not a survey.

equator (schematic)GreenlandGreenlandNorth AmericaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaSouth AmericaAfricaAfricaEuropeEuropeAsiaAsiaIndiaIndiaAustraliaAustraliaAntarcticaAntarctica

Scientific visualization. Coastlines are models, not observed historical maps.

Keep looking

How would we know? Open only if you want the evidence.

Keep looking · Birds

Birds are dinosaurs. When we say non-bird dinosaurs disappeared at 66 million years ago, we are being careful on purpose. Evolution branches. It does not empty a costume closet.

Keep looking · How long is long

Non-bird dinosaurs were around for more than 150 million years. All of human history would fit in a tiny corner of that span.