⏳ Time slider
Drag it, press ▶ to travel, or click an era label under the bar to jump. ← → nudge, space plays.
🚶 Human ⇄ 🦕 Life
Toggle bottom-left. Human maps 12,000 years of history; Life on Earth shows 4.6 billion years — with continents in their true ancient positions.
🖱 Click anything
Events open their full story; fossils tell you what the creature was and when it lived. "Meanwhile" shows what else was happening.
🔍 Zoom & search
Scroll to dive into any region; clusters split as you go. Search jumps to any of 52,000+ events.
🏳 Layers of the era
Borders, nation names and cities all update with the year. Switch the base between Terrain and Satellite.
🦕 Life on Earth
Watch continents drift and assemble; fossils sit where each species actually lived. ❗ marks the great turning points — mass extinctions and impacts.