About this experience

This is an interactive journey through Earth's deep history. A single procedurally rendered globe morphs through seventeen moments — from the magma ocean of Day Zero, through the Moon-forming Theia impact, Snowball Earth, the Great Dying, the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs, and on to the human-driven warming of today.

Each stop shows that era's atmosphere, climate, dominant life and turning point, alongside instrument readouts for temperature, CO₂ and oxygen. The five great mass extinctions — and the open question of a sixth — are flagged on the timeline.

All figures follow the deep-time report “The Living Planet,” reflecting current scientific consensus from sources including the UC Museum of Paleontology, NOAA / Scripps (the Keeling Curve), the UK Met Office, Copernicus / ECMWF, the WMO and IPBES. Dates in deep time carry real uncertainty and are rounded for readability.