Evidence From Snowball Earth Found in Ancient Rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak

Image credit: Christine S. Siddoway. Article by  Liam Courtney-Davies, Christine Siddoway, and Rebecca Flowers. Discover – November 14, 2024. Originally published by The Conversation.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth, endured for tens of millions of years. Yet, miraculously, early life not only held on but thrived. When the ice melted and the ground thawed, […]

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