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.

If you ask Professor John Compton what Table Mountain is, he won’t give you the simple answer you may have hoped for. He ...

We pay our respects to all the knowledge holders who participated in the project, as well as all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their ancestors, and we acknowledge their continuous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Of the 700 specimens that roam the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Fossils, these six standout dinosaurs make a big impression Maddie Burakoff When the Smithsonian’s new Hall of Fossils—Deep Time exhibition ...

ABC Kids Early Education is proud to support the launch of Deep Time, an ABC News Story Lab project. Deep Time brings to life the awe-inspiring ancient story of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Finding a fossil is like discovering a time capsule of what life was like millions of years ago. So it was fitting that Arlton Murray, who worked with fossils at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Many exhibitions about the evolution of life tend to open with abstract concepts: the chemical formula for life or primordial microbes that lived in shallow seas. But the “Deep Time” designers wanted ...

The Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” seems to promise a return to an imagined past, when the nation was better and more authentically “American.” Even if the vision espoused by some ...