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 ...

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An international group of researchers is working to define a new geological era that will more accurately describe the current state of the planet. Called the Anthropocene era, this geological unit ...

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 ...

Take a look into the geological record, and you might just find…plastic? A new study based on sediment collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, California found that plastics have been building ...

Spanning more than 66 million years, the Cenozoic Era shaped the world we live in today. From the rise of mammals to the emergence of modern humans, this era tells a story of survival, evolution, and ...

Scientists have been mystified as to why animals are missing in much of the fossil record. Researchers have now developed a new method to determine if animals really were absent during certain ...