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by cedricd 1569 days ago
I was going to say that the landmasses could have been pretty different back then. But I took a quick look and it looks like they were broadly in the same place with respect to N / S hemispheres.
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Yep, 65 million years ago was really not that far from the present, geologically speaking.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66

Wow India is really headed north in a hurry.
Yes it is! Hence the mountains.
And South America and Africa were still quite close together.. the Pacific is even bigger than it is now. Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water
> Literally a whole half side of the planet filled with water

It still looks like that today! A host of images showing it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=view+of+earth+pacific+ocean&...

The “Water Hemisphere” is 89% water. The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land.

The location [0] may be a little surprising. The shared view above is deceptive due to the land at the edges.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres#/...

> The “Land Hemisphere” is 85% land.

Interesting. Not sure where you got that 85% figure though:

>> even in the land hemisphere, the water area still slightly exceeds the land area (with 53 percent water to 47 percent land)

Ugh why does it keep turning on rotation when changing the dropdown!

I'm trying to fix on a single point and move backwards in time to see the change but it keeps rotating the global every time... weird default functionality.

edit: weird, now it seems to work fine. I was disabling the 'rotate global' but it wasn't taking effect before

Display options -> Rotate globe