A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed ...

Climate change deniers inaccurately claim that Earth's rapidly rising temperatures are the mere product of natural cycles. Scientific experts have long explained that, although Earth does experience ...

“It’s almost impressive how incorrect he’s able to be about an article he’s looking directly at," one expert said. Reading time 3 minutes Podcaster and former UFC commentator Joe Rogan isn’t exactly ...

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

The new paper is part of an ongoing research effort that began in 2018, when Smithsonian researchers were helping develop the museum’s “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils— Deep Time.” The new hall aimed to ...