A team of researchers challenged the belief that complex life forms first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, saying life ...

Vanderbilt University. "Life in the Precambrian may have been much livelier than previously thought." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 05 / 170519084411.htm (accessed June 2 ...

Precambrian Life Paleontologists now know that the Precambrian actually did swarm with living creatures, and it was swarming more than 3.85 billion years ago.

Biosignatures and structures in the geological record indicate that microbial life has inhabited Earth for the past 3.5 billion years or so 1,2.Research in the physical sciences has been able to ...

The Symposium, entitled “The Hunt for Precambrian Life: An Integrated Approach”, is to be followed by a half-day (afternoon) Poster Session, intended to focus on detailed examples of ...

Its Precambrian sandstone beds, once an ancient seafloor, are rich with fossils that capture life from over half a billion ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Most experts believe complex life on Earth can be traced back roughly 635-to-800 million years ago to the Cambrian Period—but some researchers say they now possess evidence that dramatically ...