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Was there a Snowball Earth in Our Past? New Evidence Says Yes
Jul 15 2008, Shane

LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis, which suggests that Earth was entirely covered by ice during the...

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