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

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

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

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

Even the criteria used to define a continent is fraught, with some geologists arguing for the existence of “Zealandia” and ...

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

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

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

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

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

A new study predicts a grim future for humanity as Earth's continents drift towards forming a supercontinent. This will lead ...