Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

Explore the concept of 'snowball earth' and recent findings on climate variability during this ancient icy period.

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Ancient Scottish rocks prove Earth had seasons and climate cycles even during Snowball Earth period despite near total ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

New research reveals that the Snowball Earth was not always frozen solid. There were periods where it moved to slushball or ...