All life forms — humans, animals, plants, even viruses — find a way to adapt in response to the ecosystems they call home. On average, most species exist on earth for between two and 10 million years.

BREWING OPPORTUNITY: Pictured from left, Deep Time coffee roaster Timothy "GA" Underwood, café worker Shilone and founder Dustin Mailman are part of the team working to create quality drinks and offer ...

Winter is settling over the rolling hills of North Idaho, where I live. Snow ices the limbs of the bare aspens outside my window, while perfect flakes fall from the flat gray sky. This weather is my ...

We know Aotearoa New Zealand is home to many geographically and biologically special features. Yet few of us know it also has its very own measure of "deep time." Known as the New Zealand Geological ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

Celebrate Shark Week by meeting some of the prehistoric sharks prowling the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea For nearly half a billion years, sharks of all shapes and sizes have ruled the deep, ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise timekeepers in the deep past. By decoding the chemistry locked into these fragile ...

A paleontology curator preparing the skeleton of a baby dinosaur some seven or eight million years old for exhibition. Fossil found in Montana. Artist unknown, 1921. The Trump campaign slogan “Make ...

One of the advantages of the U.K. compared to the U.S. is it’s small. In the five hours it takes to go from Micanopy, Florida (where I lived for five years) to Miami, I can drive clear across England ...