Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

If the deglaciation of Snowball Earth occurred over a longer duration of ~10–30,000 years, it is possible that the sea level fluctuations recorded in the Naukluft Mountains (and potentially ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

Geologists have long suspected that Earth's temperature dropped dramatically during this time, resulting in a frigid "Snowball Earth." But they've argued quite a bit about just how icy the planet ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

The big freeze, which covered nearly all the globe in two phases for 80 million years, is known as "Snowball Earth", after which the first animal life emerged. Clues hidden in rocks about the ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but ...

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 ...

#NewsCONeeds 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 ...

One of the first supercontinents to form on Earth, Rodinia brings together most of the planet’s landmasses. During its 550 ...

Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The Snowball Earth hypothesis is still debated among scientists. Some argue that the planet may not have been ...