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Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a frozen, white sphere, its rocky surface buried kilometers under ice. Despite the barren landscape, the evolution of complex life in the oceans was about to ...

According to a new study, researchers have identified a massive gravity hole-technically known as a Geoid Low-beneath the ...