See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We are living in a new geological age, scientists with the ...

The Meghalayan Age’s “timestamp” is an isotopic shift found in a single stalagmite growing from the floor of the Mawmluh Cave in Meghalaya, India ICS 4,200 years ago, a sweeping mega-drought ...

When the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) announced in 2018 that the youngest subdivision of the Holocene epoch would be called the Meghalayan Age, a ripple of pride passed across the ...

Seven Sisters Waterfalls in Megahalaya, India, the state that is the namesake of the new geological age. Image Credit: Rohan Mahanta via Wikimedia Commons. The Holocene commenced 11,700 years ago ...

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Guy Middleton, a historian at the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague, has angered members of the group who successfully pushed for the creation of a new unit of geological ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth's history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

According to the latest version of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart from the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), we are living in the Meghalayan Age. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites, or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

The Earth is now in a new geological age. The International Union of Geological Sciences said that this age, dubbed the Meghalayan, started 4,250 years ago when drought struck the planet. We are ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...