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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...