The study, led by the University of Colorado Boulder, is a coup for proponents of a long-standing theory known as Snowball Earth. It posits that from about 720 to 635 million years ago ...

Snowball Earth defines periods of our planet's history when ice spanned the globe, even reaching the equator. The planetary-scale freeze is thought to have been driven by ice sheet expansion ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Harvard University are changing the way we think about Earth's largest glaciation event, "Snowball Earth." Find out how Earth's most chilling event ...

The big freeze, which covered nearly all the globe in two phases for 80 million years, is known as "Snowball Earth", after which the first animal life emerged. Clues hidden in rocks about the ...

This was based on geochemical proxies that suggested that large amounts of mass erosion matched with the Snowball Earth period. "The new research verifies and advances the findings in the earlier ...

Researchers have uncovered physical evidence indicating that Earth was entirely frozen during the “Snowball Earth” period, spanning roughly 720 to 635 million years ago. During this period ...

While Utah supposedly has the greatest snow on earth, Mother Nature has been spreading the precious white fluff to brand new ...