The largest ice age on Earth turned the entire planet into a “snowball” – research

In the past, glaciers covered the Earth even at the equator.

Geologists claim that our planet was once covered by huge glaciers that reached even the equator. However, it still remains a mystery where and how living organisms survived at that time, if the glaciers even reached the center of the continents, where conditions were very dry.

IFLScience writes about it.

Geologists learned about the existence of recent ice ages by finding traces of the presence of glaciers much further from the poles or high mountains than expected. It seemed incredible that the planet was once so cold that thick sheets of ice could reach the equator.

Once thought of as fiction, it is now known that the Earth had at least two such large ice ages, when the Earth was about 60°C colder than it is today.

Scientists found evidence of glaciation in…