As a teenager, I was obsessed with dinosaurs, but I had little aptitude for what came before them. I couldn’t make sense of what John McPhee, in that most glorious line of geopoetry, called “deep time ...

“Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom” is the fifth film in a series that has spanned 25 years. We thought we’d take a look at things over a much larger time period, so let’s dig into geologic time. A matter ...

Geologic time scales are long – too long for the human mind to really comprehend. Over millions, and tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of years, the Earth has changed from something ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites, or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

In 1911 the discovery that the world was billions of years old changed our view of the world forever. Imagine trying to understand history without any dates. You know, for example, that the First ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. From the emergence of life to mass extinctions, Earth has gone through incredible changes in its ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Meghalayan age ...

The Meghalayan is one of three newly designated time intervals dividing the Holocene Epoch The newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago. Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic ...

Geologists have been able to identify crucial episodes in life’s history. By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s ...

Reston, VA – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) announced that they have developed an updated geologic time scale and color scheme for use in ...

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