Between 640 and 720 million years ago, the Earth was covered in ice, snagging it the modern nickname “Snowball Earth.” ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

These "Snowball Earth" events have happened only a handful of times and do not occur on regular cycles. Each lasts for millions of years or tens of millions of years and is followed by dramatic ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...