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.

BREWING OPPORTUNITY: Pictured from left, Deep Time coffee roaster Timothy "GA" Underwood, café worker Shilone and founder Dustin Mailman are part of the team working to create quality drinks and offer ...

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 ...

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

Exhibition writer, Angela Roberts Reeder, shares what it took to write the script for the new “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time,” now open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer is the curator of fossil vertebrates at the museum, lead scientist for the Deep Time Initiative and a member of the core team for the “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time.” ...

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 ...

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 ...