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.

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This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Stuff is old where I live, in ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise timekeepers in the deep past. By decoding the chemistry locked into these fragile ...

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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 ...