Our planet is more than four billion years old – a staggering amount of time for humans to contemplate. To ease this task, experts have divided earth’s history into pieces of time, called aeons, eras, ...

The entirety of human civilization has occurred in the Holocene geological epoch, a period of relatively stable global temperature that stretches from 11,700 years ago to today. Maybe. For more than a ...

The way the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sees it, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is “championing awareness of Earth’s geologic eras,” according to a department press release. This ...

University of Alberta scientist Alexander Wolfe looks for clues about the past in fossils contained in rock layers and lake sediment. When he started finding plastic in his samples — so-called new ...