New Tool Lets You Trace Where Your Backyard Was 320 Million Years Ago

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Ever wondered where in the world your backyard was, within the ancient supercontinent of Pangaea ? Now, you can find out for yourself. A team of Earth scientists has just released an update to Paleolatitude.org , a tool that reveals the shifting latitudes of any given location on Earth over 320 million years of continental drift. This could help put existing geological and paleontological data into a whole new perspective: A fossil left behind can be tracked not only across time, but space, too.

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