In northern Quebec, an exceptional geological formation spans across time. Researchers have just confirmed that these stones, ...

Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 ...

Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth — including the evolution of life. Many different representations of the timeline have been created, and many approaches ...

And the period (as it is now known, since the realisation that Earth is far older than the 6,000 years implied by the Bible, and each system of rocks corresponds to a huge hunk of time) has been ...

Source: “A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature”, E.J. Judd et al. Temperatures are averages for geological periods. Shaded area shows values with a 68% probability.

But, the closer the chart gets to the present, the narrower the divisions become. The second most recent geological period, the Neogene, lasted just twenty million years.

A proposal to codify a new geological epoch based on humanity's influence on Earth has been rejected. It means "the Anthropocene" will not be added to the chronostratigraphic chart featured in ...

Some scientists suggest that a “Lunar Anthropocene” started in 1959 when the first spacecraft sent by humanity landed on the moon, and as a new race to the moon heats up, the epoch is only ...

Some scientists suggest that a “Lunar Anthropocene” started in 1959 when the first spacecraft sent by humanity landed on the moon, and as a new race to the moon heats up, the epoch is only ...