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 ...

A glance at any geological map of Europe will show the reader how the Belgian island stretched gradually in a southwesterly direction during the Permian epoch, approaching the coast of France by ...

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 ...

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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 ...