Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

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

(CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean ...

(CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean ...

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions in the oceans that set the stage for early animal evolution Sara ...

Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice. Despite the barren landscape, the evolution of complex life in the oceans was about ...

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 ...

Hypotheses include a sequence of global glaciation events, known collectively as "Snowball Earth," which occurred during the Cryogenian period more than 635 million years ago.

700 million years ago, the Earth was almost entirely frozen, an episode called "Snowball Earth". Its titanic glaciers played a role in the evolution of complex life. A recent study reveals how these ...