Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, ...

A groundbreaking international study has revealed that Earth’s geological timeline, once believed to be a chaotic sequence of ...

Reserachers tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new 'Anthropocene' epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale.

Geologic Time Scale Chronology is the science of organizing events in the order they happened in time. Introducing Timelines What are some events that all of us have had in our lives? Ask the class ...

In addition to providing tools for the understanding of the Earth's major climatic changes, computations of planetary orbits make it possible to refine the geological time scale used by geologists.

MILLIONS of people can name a single geologic period, the Jurassic. Nit-pickers did argue that the famous film should have been called Cretaceous Park, resting their case on the identification of ...

Informally, people talk about our current age as the Anthropocene, melding humans with the lingo of geologic time. And now, there’s a new age with a new name — the Meghalayan.

Geologists have identified a site in Canada that they say could mark a new epoch called the Anthropocene. But not everyone agrees.

During the Cenozoic era, warmer oceans harbored more species with similar functional roles, according to a new study, which reveals how ocean temperature shapes biodiversity and biogeographic ...

Collapse of civilizations worldwide defines youngest unit of the Geologic Time Scale *Civilizations were destroyed worldwide by climate change in the "Meghalayan," but had no idea what was gong on.