Life endured inside the snowball
Evidence from Snowball Earth found in ancient rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak—it’s a missing link
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, , endured for .
Yet, miraculously, early life . When the ice melted and the ground thawed, , eventually leading to life-forms we recognize today.