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Nature 444, 134-135 (9 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/444134a; Published online 8 November 2006

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Special report Telling the time

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Geochronologists are pinning down dates in deep time better than ever before. Rex Dalton talks to the experts who are redrawing the details of Earth history.

By fine-tuning their techniques, researchers are refining their ability to measure ever more precisely the ticking of Earth's geological clock.For decades, geologists and palaeontologists have had only ball-park estimates for when major events happened in the history of life on Earth.