Main St. in Rockford. The event features activities to teach about the Holocene epoch, meaning the period of time from the ice age to today, glaciers, mammoths and more. “We have really amazing ...

we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for ...

“Following that dominant view, we were so sure our megafauna was from the beginning of the Holocene, we didn’t even date our fossils,” he says. Now, “there’s a lot of work to do.

One of the biggest ongoing debates in science is whether or not human activity, such as burning fossil fuels and triggering ... people have lived in the Holocene epoch for roughly 11,700 years ...

The dire wolf has been resurrected in a remarkable achievement by Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences.

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or ...

such as mineral composition and the appearance of distinctive fossils. Each variation reflects a major climatic change. For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the ...

If canonized, the Anthropocene epoch comes just under 12,000 years after the previous epoch, the Holocene ... and mercury released from burning fossil fuels, microplastic pollution and nitrogen ...

Researchers analyze ocean sediments to understand monsoon impact on water conditions, marine productivity, and ecosystem ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...

When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...