It’s official — you’re living in a new age. It’s called the Meghalayan, and geologists say it's marked by a 'mega-drought' and the collapse of civilizations 4,200 years ago.

Understanding the geologic time scale and how to organize Earth’s history into a coherent timeline. MS-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, ...

The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb in 1952. Scientists have reportedly voted against a proposal that a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, began in 1950, marked in rocks ...

A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment reveals the existence of a 60-million-year cycle combining tectonics, biogeochemistry, and marine biodiversity. By ...

Object Details Contents Introduction. The study of the earth / J.F. White -- The law of uniformity and geologic time. James Hutton / Karl von Zittel -- The uniformity of nature / Charles Coulston ...

However, one particular geologic event in that half-a-billion-year-long epic still has scientists scratching their heads. Around 6 million years ago, between the Miocene and Pliocene epochs—or ...

"But we're not nearly there now," Bennington said. “We’re talking geological time scale." That’s hundreds of thousands of years – and possibly much longer.