A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a vast superphylum that includes molting animals ...

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 oxygen isotopes in sedimentary cherts (siliceous sediments) have been used to argue that the Precambrian oceans were hot — with temperatures of up to 70 °C at 3.3 Gyr before present 1. Robert and ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth. A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the ...

Several thousand wells in Kansas have been drilled into the Precambrian basement, which usually signals the depth limit of drilling for oil and gas prospecting. Most of these wells have penetrated ...