Earth’s rock record is missing a billion years, and new evidence tied to the Great Unconformity hints at where that lost history went.

In some parts of the world, more than a billion years of geologic history is missing. Now a team of scientists think they ...

UK Government Security Minister and Aberystwyth University alumnus Dan Jarvis MBE MP has addressed students at the Department of International Politics during a visit to the university.

Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

F or the first time, chitin has been identified in a Cambrian Period trilobite. The unexpected discovery could be useful for ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

Castor oil gets tons of attention on social media. Countless videos tout its purported health benefits, from relieving constipation to promoting hair growth and breaking down belly fat. An ancient ...

Sandvik, a global mining engineering firm with offices across northeastern Ontario, was presented with Cambrian College’s Employer Award of Distinction during its annual Career Fair and Conference on ...