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 ...

Time rules our lives. We wake, eat, work, and sleep on the clock. Our days unfold in a standardized symphony of alarm clocks, school buzzers, and meeting timers. Meanwhile, global positioning ...

The team behind the Smithsonian’s new dinosaur and fossil hall reflect on what “deep time” means to them. Erin I. Garcia de Jesus Miniature dinosaurs are staged in a scene from 150 million years ago ...

Humans have long explored three big scientific questions: evolution of the universe, evolution of Earth, and evolution of life. Geoscientists have embraced the mission of elucidating the evolution of ...

Ever since our ancestors ventured onto the African savanna, human beings have searched, explored, and wondered about the world. Today, science is the vehicle that takes us along a path toward ...

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 ...

We have learned an enormous amount about our planet’s climate system by studying Earth’s modern and recent history -- roughly the last two million years, and particularly the last 10,000 to 100,000 ...

Kirk Johnson highlights the vital climate context museum collections provide at international COP conferences Jack Tamisiea Paleontologist and museum director Kirk Johnson excavates a mastodon jawbone ...