Prehistoric time line, geologic time scale, photos, facts, maps, and more from National Geographic. Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history.
Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has significant implications for navigation ...
8 min read This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The maps here show the world ... million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would ...