The new Deep Time Trail leads visitors to Siccar Point, where James Hutton forever changed our understanding of Earth’s age.

Humans have long explored three big scientific questions: the evolution of the universe, the evolution of Earth, and the evolution of life. Geoscientists have embraced the mission of elucidating the ...

The team behind the Smithsonian’s new dinosaur and fossil hall reflect on what “deep time” means to them. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus Miniature dinosaurs are staged in a scene from 150 million years ago ...

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Contemporary life is rife with talk of impending apocalypse, from the plots of countless books and movies to the increasingly grim predictions associated with climate change. This mindset, however, ...

One of the advantages of the U.K. compared to the U.S. is it’s small. In the five hours it takes to go from Micanopy, Florida (where I lived for five years) to Miami, I can drive clear across England ...

Rocks keep time. Not on our human-scale time, but deep time: the almost unimaginable span of billions of years which have already come and gone. Let’s say you’re in the far future and you’re looking ...

Humans have long explored three big scientific questions: evolution of the universe, evolution of Earth, and evolution of life. Geoscientists have embraced the mission of elucidating the evolution of ...