Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-09

Strata: Earth’s history as a 1,000-part paper cut

Strata plans to tell the 4.54-billion-year history of Earth in 1,000 daily animated chapters made from digitally cut paper.

Why it surfaced

This is an unusually committed publishing format: twelve geological arcs, a four-minute chapter every day for three years, and an Earth Calendar that compresses all recorded history into the final 23 seconds of the year. Nothing has been unearthed yet—the first chapter is still being cut—but the site already lays out the full dig plan and invites viewers to steer it through comments.