It's called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale. The scale divides the history of the Earth into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, the ...

I SHALL pass lightly over the Permian and Triassic epochs, as being more nearly related in their organic forms to the Carboniferous epoch, with which we are already somewhat familiar, while in those ...

IN entering upon the Tertiaries, we reach that geological age which, next to his own, has the deepest interest for man. The more striking scenes of animal life, hitherto confined chiefly to the ocean, ...

Geologists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and KU Leuven, in collaboration with Maastricht Natural History Museum and Dutch conservation organisation Natuurmonumenten, have mapped the million-year ...

Francis Thackeray has received funding from the National Research Foundation. In the century since the Taung Child was found and described, a great debate has developed about the geological ages of ...

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