Worm-like fossil This tiny fossil, measuring just a few centimeters, is significant as it is the oldest confirmed ecdysozoan and the only one known from the Precambrian era.

Transit of Mercury across the Sun; Newton's theory of gravity was considered to be "falsified" when it failed to account for the precession of the planet's orbit.

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 ...

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.

When asked what would disprove evolution, the biologist J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: “Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.” What he meant was that evolution predicts a progressive ...

Researchers discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing earlier onset of the “agronomic revolution”.