Extinction

life almost ended five times. you’re the thread.

scrub 540My of the tree of life — five prunings, one golden thread

The simulation prunes a stylized tree of life through five real mass extinctions spanning 540 million years, each one killing off a large share of everything alive at the time. The one golden thread that survives every cut stands for a plain fact: whatever your actual ancestry was, it made it through all five, or there would be no one here to scrub the timeline.

Concepts: evolution, deep-time.

An interactive you play with one thumb, on Wundr.