When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call "snowball Earth", when our planet was entirely encased in ice. This happened when the polar ice caps ...

The Snowball Earth hypothesis has been largely based on evidence from sedimentary rocks exposed in areas that once were along coastlines and shallow seas, as well as climate modeling.Physical evidence ...

Between 640 and 720 million years ago, the Earth was covered in ice, snagging it the modern nickname “Snowball Earth.” Recently, researchers found a rock formation that shows the transition ...

Scientists found evidence that during Snowball Earth, thick ice sheets covered some tropical regions, suggesting glaciers blanketed Earth's surface.

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 ...

All of which raises questions about what the snowball Earth might have looked like in the continental interiors. A team of US-based geologists think they've found some glacial deposits in the form ...

Now, new evidence found at the Tavakaiv, or "Tava," sandstones in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon. "This study presents the ...

More than 700 million years ago, the Earth was plunged into a state that geologists call “snowball Earth”, when our planet was entirely encased in ice.This happened when the polar ice caps ...

Chinese artisans are working on the two-story slide that will be involved in a snowball fight scene in 'Ice.' (Dewayne Bevil/Orlando Sentinel) Having a snowball. Now, about those snowballs.