Four and a half billion years, one scroll
The continents below are not a drawing. They are a plate reconstruction: every coastline is rotated to where the model says it sat, and it moves as you read. Scroll to travel forward in time, and click any marker to see what was actually dug up there.
4,567 Ma — Earth formstoday
Every animal you can name lived in the last stripe — the 12% of
Earth's history since the Cambrian. The chapters below are paced by what there is
to say, not by duration, so that sliver gets most of the scroll.
↓ Start in the Hadean