The Huronian Glaciation may have been the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history. Kevin Gill / flickr This period of time in Earth's history may have been the greatest mass extinction our ...

The Huronian glaciation is the oldest ice age we know about. The Earth was just over 2 billion years old, and home only to unicellular life-forms. The early stages of the Huronian, ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of this discovery is the crater’s age aligns with the end of theHuronian glaciation, a ...

The five major ice ages in the paleo record include the Huronian glaciation (2.4 billion to 2.1 billion years ago), the Cryogenian glaciation (720 million to 635 million years ago), the Andean ...

Whatever the cause, the effects were pronounced. Although Blom’s focus is Europe, the most densely settled northerly area of the planet, he makes it clear that the effects of the Little Ice Age ...

Earth's history includes several major ice ages, including the Huronian glaciation, the oldest known ice age which happened more than two billion years ago.

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