Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now, researchers ...

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber ...

Scientists think Earth may have undergone at least two extreme freeze events throughout its history, becoming a so-called “snowball Earth” with a surface covered by ice. What triggered these events is ...

We know there were animals during Earth’s chilliest era—but we still don't know what they look like. By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine Published Dec 23, 2022 6:00 PM EST This article was originally ...

Research by University Professor Richard Peltier of physics reveals that the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago may have been warmer than previously thought. Peltier developed a climate model that ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...