d.DodoHistoryCURIOSITY HAS A PLACE HERE
FREE PLAY · THE FLAGSHIP

Animal geography game.
Find where it lived.

A flightless bird. A striped marsupial. An island separated from the mainland. Follow the evidence and place each animal’s question-specific home on a globe or map.

How to play ↓
5 rounds · Globe + mapNo accountNo timer

✦ Free guest play♧ Source-linked explanations◎ Keyboard alternatives↗ Five island stories
YOUR LITTLE RITUAL

One small discovery. Every day.

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LOOK. THINK. DISCOVER.

How to play Where did it live?

01

Study the evidence

Read the animal clue and the exact question. Some rounds ask for an island; others ask for a country or a last surviving population.

02

Place your pin

Rotate the Three.js globe, use the flat map, select a named place or enter coordinates. Move your pin until you are ready to commit.

03

Discover the answer

Compare your guess with the accepted region. Read the explanation, image credit and scientific source, then continue through five rounds.

THE RULES, UP FRONT

How scoring works

Five rounds, up to 1,000 points each. Full credit applies inside the accepted region or within a 40 km coastal tolerance. Farther guesses earn fewer points. Opening a hint lowers that round’s maximum to 800. There is no speed bonus.

MORE THAN A SCORE

What you’ll discover

Learn the difference between an animal’s native home, a fossil discovery, a last surviving population and its full geographic range. The game uses modern coastlines as a navigation reference; they are not ancient continental maps.

A few clues for your first game

  • Read “island” and “country” carefully before placing a pin.
  • Use neighboring landmasses to narrow down an unfamiliar island.
  • Check the reveal’s scope note: an accepted island does not mean the animal occupied every habitat on it.
BEFORE YOUR FIRST DISCOVERY

Questions about this game

Is this a free geography game?

Yes. The game is free to play without an account or payment. Five source-checked sample questions currently repeat in different orders.

Can I play without using a 3D globe?

Yes. A 2D map, named-place selector and coordinate fields provide complete alternatives. The flat map also supports arrow keys and Enter.

Does it show where dinosaurs lived on ancient continents?

Not in this version. It uses modern geography and carefully worded place questions. Deep-time movement needs suitable reviewed paleogeographic data before implementation.

Ready to follow your curiosity?

5 rounds · Globe + map. Free guest play, with no time pressure.

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Source-checked games · sources checked October 31, 2026; independent expert review not claimed. Finite question banks rotate and eventually repeat. Modern coastlines are navigation references, not ancient continental reconstructions. Read sources and play rules.

01 / LOOK

A clue worth noticing.

Study the image and read the question. Every round tells you which kind of place to find.

02 / GUESS

Let curiosity lead.

Place a pin on the globe or map. Keyboard controls and place selection work too.

03 / DISCOVER

Leave knowing more.

See the accepted region, understand your score, and follow the sources behind the answer.

The current game uses the same five questions in different orders. It is not yet a full daily question bank. Maps show modern coastlines; no ancient continental reconstruction is implied.

A QUICK FIELD GUIDE

Look. Guess. Discover.

Five rounds, up to 1,000 points each. Guess the place the question asks for—not necessarily the animal’s entire range. There’s no timer.

Full credit is given inside the accepted region or within 40 km of its coast. Outside that tolerance, points decrease exponentially with distance to the nearest accepted coastline: maximum × exp(−(distance − 40) / 2,500). A hint changes that round’s maximum to 800, shown before use.

Drag the globe to explore; tap to place a pin. On the 2D map, arrow keys move the crosshair by 5°; Shift + arrow moves by 1°; Enter places the pin. Place names and numeric coordinates offer another way to answer.

The daily order is the same for everyone using this version on the same UTC date. It resets at 00:00 UTC. Practice can be replayed. Progress stays on this device when browser storage is available.
THE EVIDENCE MATTERS

Sources, maps & images

Geography: Natural Earth, public domain. Generalized modern boundaries are navigation aids, not species-range data. Selected answer coastlines are sampled from 1:10m data; the globe uses 1:110m outlines.

Place-name representative coordinates: mledoze/countries, Open Database License 1.0. The adapted coordinate database is available in geography.json (choices collection). Island choices were added for this game.

3D renderer: Three.js, MIT license, included with this preview. Photographs and historical illustrations retain their individual licenses. The landing-page dodo illustration was created for DodoHistory and is an artistic interpretation.

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