Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

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

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

Van Niekerk’s expedition will embark on pioneering fieldwork in Antarctica, starting this 2024/2025 austral summer season and ...