Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago ...

The early earth / editor, D.R. Nelson. Earth's formation and first billion years / D.R. Nelson. The early Precambrian stratigraphic record of large extraterrestrial impacts / B.M. Simonson, G.R.

The Garden of the Ediacaran was a period in the ancient past when Earth's shallow seas were populated with a bewildering variety of enigmatic, soft-bodied creatures. Scientists have pictured it as a ...

In the history of life on Earth, a dramatic and revolutionary change in the nature of the sea floor occurred in the early Cambrian (541–485 million years ago): the agronomic revolution. This ...

Researchers led by Nagoya University discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing earlier onset of the "agronomic revolution" Nagoya, Japan -- In the ...

The Precambrian eon is vast, almost unimaginably so. In fact, before some fossil discoveries were made late in the 20th century, it was considered unknowable -- evolution's dark ages. The Precambrian ...

REFERRING to the paragraph in NATURE (February 28, p. 423), on the sudden appearance of a rich fauna in the Lower Cambrian rocks, I should like to make a suggestion for the consideration of geologists ...

The casual observer generally rejects the possibility of hydrocarbons occurring in the Precambrian basement rocks of Ohio and surrounding region. However, it appears that a major paradigm shift must ...

The strange creatures that lived in the Garden of the Ediacaran more than 540 million years ago, before animals came on the scene, may have been much more dynamic than experts have thought. The Garden ...