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.

one problem with their data is that there is still a multimillion-year time gap between the predicted end of Snowball Earth and the start of the Cambrian. It’s not clear why the formation of new ...

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 ...

The research, published in science journal Precambrian Research ... that incorporated almost all of the Earth's landmasses. Rodinia had formed via 'introversion' where the internal oceans formed ...

[Related: A primer on the primal origins of humans on Earth.] In the study, the authors write that this discovery provides “a plausible route for the formation of the first biopolymers,” or ...

Carbonaceous matter in ∼ 3.5 Ga black bedded barite from the Dresser Formation (Pilbara Craton, Western Australia)—Insights into organic cycling on the juvenile Earth, Precambrian Research (2024).