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.

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 ...

At the end of 2019, in the English countryside, Australian playwright David Finnigan began writing a play about the six turning points that have brought us to this moment in time—our ecosystems ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Labandeira, Conrad C. 2018. "The deep-time history of insect biodiversity." In Insect biodiversity : science and society. Volume II. Foottit, Robert G. and Adler ...