Watch a billion years of Earth's changes in less than a minute

The Earth as we see it today is the result of billions of years of changes on the surface of the planet. The movement of tectonic plates determines the arrangement of the continents, and they're constantly in motion. A new video combines a wealth of data and condenses it into a 40-second animation showing the drift of Earth's continents over the past billion years. If you take a glance at a map or globe today, what you're looking at is really just a recent development. The Earth's continents are...