⏳ Time slider
Drag it, press ▶ to travel, or click an era label under the bar to jump. It reaches back 350,000 years — Ice-Age art and the first humans included. ← → nudge, space plays.
🚶 Human ⇄ 🦕 Life
Toggle bottom-left. Human maps deep prehistory to today; Life on Earth shows 4.6 billion years — with continents drifting to their true ancient positions and fossil species where they lived.
🖱 Click anything
Events open a story with a photo and 🔗 Connect the dots — the causes, effects & consequences that link it to other events. Cities & countries show their current state.
🎬 Tours & 🧵 Trail
Take a guided tour (bottom-left), or just explore — every event you visit is threaded together across the globe as a golden trail you can retrace.
🔍 Zoom, search & layers
Scroll to dive into any region; clusters split as you go. Search jumps to any of 54,000+ events. Borders, nations & cities update with the year; switch Terrain/Satellite.
🦕 Life on Earth
Watch continents assemble and break apart; ~18,000 fossil species sit where they lived, with famous creatures named. ❗ marks the great turning points — mass extinctions and impacts.