The Precambrian is the name given for the first super eon of Earth’s history. This division of time — about seven-eighths of Earth's history — lasted from the first formation of the planet ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of ... remains of plants and animals buried when the sediments were formed. The Earth was already more than 600 million years old when life began.

By studying river crystals in Finland, researchers have identified traces of a hidden chunk of Earth's crust from ... the continental crust that formed during the Precambrian's Archean era ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

"This is hard to reconcile with the isotopic evidence that the Moon formed from atoms like those ... which originated inside the proto-earth in Precambrian. Alternative: Capture Theory This ...

The results were recently published in the scientific journal Precambrian ... that has been formed by organic matter derived from the first living organisms on Earth, mobilized uranium in the ...

In a new study released in Nature this week, researchers state that Earth formed within just 3 million years. That’s notably faster than previous estimates placing the timeline up to 100 million ...