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

The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

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 ...

The Worst Time Periods You ... Modern life isn't always the easiest, but throughout history, periods of widespread war, geological ... Think you have what it would take to survive the worst eras ...

Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often defined by some sort of geologic trauma. The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later ...

Of all the geological periods, ... when, as happens from time ... 1970s he realised that those of some sea snails he was examining had become sturdier over the course of the Mesozoic era ...

Should humans get their own geologic era? The debate over the Anthropocene epoch, explained. by Laura Bult. May 3, 2024, 6:54 PM UTC ... or geologic unit of time, named for humans.

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the 'human age' its own distinct place in Earth's geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun.