Life before and after "snowball Earth"

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Start date Dec 2, 2014
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The discussion focuses on whether life on Earth was able to survive during the Snowball Earth period, characterized by extreme cold and glaciation, or if life re-emerged from scratch once the climate warmed. Key points include references to the Wikipedia article on Snowball Earth, particularly the section on the survival of life during frozen periods. The conversation explores the resilience of life forms during harsh conditions and the potential for microbial life to endure, suggesting that some organisms may have persisted through these extreme climates, contributing to the eventual resurgence of biodiversity as temperatures rose. The implications of this survival on the evolutionary history of life on Earth are also considered.

Dec 2, 2014

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The question is simple, was life able to recover from the very long and cold "snowball earth" epoque, which means that Earth was not completely sterile during that period, or, when climate became warmer, life simply reborn again - from scratch?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth has a whole section titled Survival of life through frozen periods.

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