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Article: "Snowball Earth" may not be responsible for mass extinction of early life on Earth.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, May 27 (ANI): New fossil findings discovered by scientists have challenged the prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, which is presumed to be responsible for widespread die-off of early life on Earth.
By analyzing microfossils in rocks from the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the scientists from UC (University of California) Santa Barbara have challenged the view that has been generally assumed to be correct for the massive extinction of early life on Earth.
"Snowball Earth" is the popular term for glaciations that occurred between approximately 726 and 635 million years ago and are ...