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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...