[HN Gopher] Which dinosaurs lived in your hometown?
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Which dinosaurs lived in your hometown?
Author : hwayne
Score : 288 points
Date : 2022-05-26 16:40 UTC (6 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (dinosaurpictures.org)
| moffkalast wrote:
| Fish, apparently.
| pachico wrote:
| Could not resolve location for "Barcelona, Catalonia, ES"
|
| :(
| gerdesj wrote:
| Really. It found Yeovil (UK) which is smaller than your
| neighbour - BDN!
| ninth_ant wrote:
| That's what it says for my hometown unless I switch to a more
| recent year. The error message is a bit confusing I think, the
| tip to change the year isn't super obvious.
|
| Interestingly, Barcelona doesn't show up until you hit 0 years
| ago, so perhaps it's location is extremely recent on the
| tectonic scale?
| bronikowski wrote:
| Only 600 millions years ago my Central European city was a beach
| front to the mega-Ocean. Would be sweet to see it but the lack of
| infrastructure could get annoying.
|
| Very fun project.
| duxup wrote:
| The in and out shallow seas in N. America provide a lot of
| beachfront ... under water ... beach front and on and off again
| activity.
|
| Amazing how much a few hundred million years will change
| things.
| srcreigh wrote:
| See here for the dinosaurs by region [1]
|
| [1]: https://dinosaurpictures.org/
| orthecreedence wrote:
| These are all renderings. Why no photos?
| the_af wrote:
| > _These are all renderings. Why no photos?_
|
| Alas! It would seem the Time Travel machine somehow erases
| the photos during the return trip, so renderings is all they
| can do.
| fluctor wrote:
| Photos of fossils?
| jasim wrote:
| There have never been dinosaurs in my town. We've always
| maintained a big board in both local and regional languages that
| said "DINOSAURS KEEP OUT".
| gus_massa wrote:
| If I change the date in the top right, does it change the list of
| dinosaurs or just change the map?
|
| It would be nice to show small pictures of the dinosaurs instead
| of just links to the main page of each dinosaur (that has a few
| pictures).
| dtagames wrote:
| It doesn't seem to. It does, however, change the epoch
| description in the bottom left, which is well-written and
| informative. The arrow keys are cool for moving through eras.
| kristopolous wrote:
| It'd be nice if it followed land and not just location.
|
| I'm sure it's more complicated then I think, but this model is
| kinda silly
| gerdesj wrote:
| Bloody plate tectonics! When you watch geo[thingie] at this
| speed you start to appreciate how there is no such thing as
| terra firma. Take the UK and Ireland - thanks to sea level
| changes it expands and contracts pretty madly and that's only
| change in one dimension. At several points it was part of the
| European land mass and faster than you can say Brexit the
| Dogger bank floods over and Neanderthals got wet feet.
|
| If you also tried to follow land, you'd have to account for
| subduction and whatever the opposite of that is on continental
| scales and land created by volcanoes and lost by volcanoes
| exploding etc on a smaller scale.
| elvis70 wrote:
| If you are using a computersaurus with a 4:3 screen like me, you
| will have to zoom in to get the list of fossils.
| Simon_O_Rourke wrote:
| We've still got AT&T and an IBM in my hometown, there's probably
| even a few PHP web-shops there too!
| [deleted]
| at-fates-hands wrote:
| We still have 3M who up until recently had a business formal
| dress code for all employees. I know several friends who turned
| down jobs because they were not cool with having to wear a suit
| the entire day they were coding.
| vehemenz wrote:
| PHP is more like birds. Technically, they're dinosaurs, but
| they've evolved and stayed relevant after Perl, etc. went
| extinct.
| boringg wrote:
| I believe you mean they are more like pterosaurs
| sophacles wrote:
| I bet they mean birds, aka modern dinosaurs. This is a good
| 'aka' because dinosaur made baby dinosaurs who grew up to
| make their own baby dinosaurs. Each generation was slightly
| different than the last and after millions of years, the
| baby dinosaurs were named birds!
| boringg wrote:
| Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a
| dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. However I did a quick
| spot check and realize that modern day birds didn't
| evolved from pterosaurs but rather from dinosaurs
| _surprised_. So I stand corrected.
| sophacles wrote:
| > Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually
| a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur.
|
| I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
| [deleted]
| tiffanyh wrote:
| You must not be referring to their HQ.
|
| Because AT&T is in Texas and IBM is in New York.
| m0ngr31 wrote:
| For living in "Dinosaurland", the list of dinosaurs that lived
| near me is pretty low
| Ensorceled wrote:
| Same with anything around the Badlands in Albert ... 2 or 3
| listed.
| gwbas1c wrote:
| It it doesn't answer the question, "Which dinosaurs lived in my
| hometown?"
|
| Seriously, I clicked on the link thinking I'd be able to get a
| list of the dinosaurs that are believed to have lived in my
| hometown. As cool as this link is, it doesn't answer "Which
| dinosaurs lived in my hometown?"
| pbiggar wrote:
| It shows the dinosaurs in a very light grey over the white
| background. You can find it just below the city search box.
| OJFord wrote:
| Others are commenting like it does though, I couldn't get a
| dinosaur list either fwiw.
| Ensorceled wrote:
| Depends on the place. Enter a town/city where dinosaurs
| fossils were found and it will show a couple. But even the
| few fossil hotbeds I checked will only show 2 or 3.
| manachar wrote:
| If you enter a place it will provide a list of fossils
| potentially nearby.
|
| It seems limited and not quite as cool as as say, showing a
| field guide of dinos in your area during a time period.
| chucksta wrote:
| Thats what it does, you can adjust the year at the top
| libraryatnight wrote:
| I was expecting to be able to click the globe where I live and
| see Dinosaur info.
|
| seems you have to use the search for place.
| cududa wrote:
| Good to know it wasn't just me who couldn't find an option to
| answer the actual thing it purports to tell you
| Ensorceled wrote:
| Apparently 0 dinosaurs roamed the area around Toronto,
| Ontario. We weren't even underwater at the time.
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| pvg wrote:
| That's because the poster made up a clickbait title, which they
| shouldn't have done.
| dcdc123 wrote:
| No, it does list the dinosaurs, it is just a very limited
| database. Most cities I tried had none but Dallas, TX for
| example listed a few.
| pvg wrote:
| The title of the site is not the submitted title.
| iambateman wrote:
| This link was extraordinarily fascinating, and I learned a lot
| but it didn't deliver on that promise for me, either.
| smm11 wrote:
| There must have been a lot in Los Angeles, given the oil
| derricks. All that liquid T-Rex goodness. No idea where this hunk
| of land was 60+ million years ago.
| takinola wrote:
| You're probably just making a joke but in case others are
| wondering, your SUV is almost certainly not powered by
| liquified T-Rexs. Instead, most hydrocarbons we have today come
| from plants ie plankton-like creatures. Also, the position of
| hydrocarbons is not dictated by the population at that point in
| time on the earth's surface. Instead, think of the earth like a
| giant porous sponge with the occasional impervious rock
| formation that traps the liquid. The hydrocarbons accumulate in
| those traps over time and lead to the reservoirs we now tap for
| oil.
| orthecreedence wrote:
| I always think the waves on Pangea's coast must have been huge.
| All that wind blowing and no continents to stop the waves from
| forming.
| manthedudeguy wrote:
| throwaway290 wrote:
| I can't help but take depictions of dinosaurs like
| https://dinosaurpictures.org/Streptospondylus-pictures at face
| value, until I catch myself and remember they may be quite wrong
| considering we are limited to fossils:
| https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/science-m...
| (tl;dr https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer/dinosaur-
| an...).
| whatever1 wrote:
| If they were still around we would get to see Buffalo fried
| Fruitadens wings.
| aksss wrote:
| Lame, no worky. Maybe cuz I'm browsing on a phone instead of
| computer? I get no list, the only thing that changes with time
| period is a general description.
| nawitus wrote:
| Try another city. The site didn't show anything for my
| location.
| [deleted]
| termios wrote:
| nothing is showing up for me. luckily i already know the answer:
| bryozoans, bryozoans, and more bryozoans
| thamer wrote:
| I also wasn't seeing anything, until I used "[?] A" to select
| all text, and noticed that the list of animals or plants for
| the city I selected was displayed at the top left, in white
| text over a white background. Selecting all made it slightly
| more visible, enough for me to read the text.
|
| Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/VQjfvQZ.png
| shagie wrote:
| One of the neat bits from this is going to 340 Mya and look at
| where the Appalachian mountain range runs.
|
| You can hike part of the Appalachian trail in Spain
| https://www.geologiadesegovia.info/the-international-appalac...
| and Ireland https://iatulsterireland.com
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Appalachian_Trai...
| 3A2D50 wrote:
| I have relatives with property along a river in Bath county
| Virginia. Across the river stands a ~200ft high cliff with
| caves that go for miles. I was told that they were formed by
| the ocean. That explanation bothered me because the caves face
| west. Now it makes sense! They have also discovered seashell
| fossils by the river!
| divbzero wrote:
| Earth's land and water hemispheres [1] were particularly stark
| in contrast back in the time of the dinosaurs. Are there
| geological theories as to how the asymmetry formed? Could major
| impact events from astronomical objects have played a role?
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
| shagie wrote:
| In digging on it, Ancient Supercontinents and the
| Paleogeography of Earth looks to be an interesting book
| https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128185339/ancient-
| sup...
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| This appears to be part of a geologic scale cycle -
| https://www.livescience.com/38218-facts-about-pangaea.html
|
| > The current configuration of continents is unlikely to be
| the last. Supercontinents have formed several times in
| Earth's history, only to be split off into new continents.
| Right now for instance, Australia is inching toward Asia, and
| the eastern portion of Africa is slowly peeling off from the
| rest of the continent.
|
| > Based on the emergence of other supercontinents in the
| Precambrian supereon (4.5 billion to 541 million years ago),
| it appears that supercontinents occur periodically every 750
| million years, according to a 2012 study in the journal
| Gondwana Research (opens in new tab).
|
| > Most scientists believe that the supercontinent cycle is
| largely driven by circulation dynamics in the mantle,
| according to a 2010 article in the Journal of Geodynamics
| (opens in new tab).
|
| Water/land hemispheres would then be an artifact of that
| cycle. Given that cycle, it will happen again -
| https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-earth-s-
| next-s...
| 99_00 wrote:
| Anyone else love Dino Dana?
| asveikau wrote:
| I think it's interesting that at 260 million years ago, Europe
| and the eastern US seem to be at relatively the same distance as
| today (maybe a little closer), but you have most of Africa wedged
| in the middle of them.
| tiffanyh wrote:
| I never realized until seeing this 3D globe that literally an
| entire side of the earth only had water.
|
| I've seen drawings of Pangaea before but never in a 3-dimensional
| sphere.
|
| Just interesting to see and entire 1/2 of the earth with nothing
| but ocean.
|
| I wonder how common this is on other planets.
| 323 wrote:
| I remember reading about how it's periodic, continents split
| apart then come together again in a cycle. Not in the same
| configuration obviously.
| padobson wrote:
| We're not too far off right now:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
| divbzero wrote:
| Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes
| up transported to a different planet except it's later revealed
| that it's actually Earth in a distant time?
| datavirtue wrote:
| Land of the Lost. I suggest the Wil Farrell movie version.
| govg wrote:
| You might want to check out the Time Odyssey series. It was
| written by Arthur C Clarke (along with Stephen Baxter) and
| deals with similar themes.
| dilippkumar wrote:
| Not quite what you are looking for, but the Malazan series has
| some stories spanning extremely large time scales through which
| multiple intelligent species evolve into existence and fade
| away.
|
| It is by far, the best series I've read. Book 1 is hard to get
| into, and doesn't reward the reader as much, but stick with the
| series. It's worth it.
| bolasanibk wrote:
| [TVTrope Warning]
| https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EarthAllAlong
| slobiwan wrote:
| You mean besides Planet of the Apes?
| drfuchs wrote:
| [Spoiler Alert:] Original 1968 "Planet of the Apes"? It's a
| great visual reveal in the last moments of the film; no dialog
| needed.
| rspeele wrote:
| The whole series of movies (well, the pre-2000 iterations)
| was recently free to watch on YouTube. They're all cheesy but
| the original one holds up reasonably well.
|
| Feels like a movie-length version of a classic Twilight Zone
| episode, which makes sense, considering Rod Serling wrote the
| first draft of the film's script.
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| > It's a great visual reveal in the last moments of the film;
| no dialog needed.
|
| Dialog is present and very famous, though. ("You maniacs! You
| blew it up!")
| anonymfus wrote:
| In Doctor Who, one of the Series 12 (2020) stories had that
| twist, and what stands this story apart from almost all other
| uses of this trope is that the twist was not an ending, and we
| see how characters process that reveal.
|
| Please be careful if you gonna read TV tropes page linked in a
| sibling comment, as the title of that episode is in the list of
| examples on that page in Live-Action TV section, so you can
| accidentally spoil yourself all the fun.
| causality0 wrote:
| This is great in theory but in practice we just don't have enough
| fossils for it to be truly interesting. It's more like "Which
| dinosaurs lived seven hundred miles away from your hometown?"
| typpo wrote:
| Hi HN, I built this. It's been posted several times before, so I
| can answer some common questions:
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| How does this work? I adapted GPlates [1], an academic project
| that creates desktop software for geologists to investigate plate
| tectonic data.
|
| Is the geocoding accurate? Even though plate tectonic models
| return precise results, you should consider the plots approximate
| within ~100km. In my tests I found that model results can vary
| significantly. I chose this model because it is widely cited and
| covers the greatest length of time.
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| How should I interpret the maps/colors? The graphics that wrap
| the globe are provided by Dr. Christopher Scotese, a geologist
| who runs the PALEOMAP project. You can learn more about the
| project and the creation of the rasters here [2]. You might also
| notice some old national borders. I just work with what I can
| get!
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| Why can't it look up my location? Your location probably didn't
| exist at the time, geologically speaking. Try switching to closer
| to present day (e.g. 66 Mya)
|
| Where are all the dinosaurs? Despite the title of this post, the
| visualization isn't really meant to show an exhaustive list of
| dinosaurs or fossils (the list doesn't even show on mobile). If
| you want to dig into data on fossils near you, check out the
| Paleobiology Database Navigator [3].
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| [1] https://www.gplates.org
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| [2]
| https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-q0WIa7ofISFHyBe4UxvN8DIPs8...
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| [3] https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
| davelacy wrote:
| This is one of the coolest web apps I've seen... awesome work!
| nsrose7224 wrote:
| This is really cool, where is SnowBall earth at ~700M years ago
| though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
| tills13 wrote:
| one suggestion is that rotation should be disabled by default,
| disable itself when you manually move the globe, or at least
| not hidden behind a toggle
|
| otherwise very cool
| 323 wrote:
| Is the rotation lock when viewing North/South Pole intentional?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock
| dataspun wrote:
| equivalent to spam in its current iteration
| throwaway743 wrote:
| Not seeing any dinosaur info on mobile. Using Android and FF
| browser
| necovek wrote:
| I like how this has former Yugoslavia (including Slovenia,
| Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia) borders :)
|
| Belgrade only got rid of the water when dinosaurs were already
| extinct according to this.
| heckelson wrote:
| I just had fun putting a pin into my hometown and discovering
| that it was at the equator at some point (300 mio years ago)!
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