635 Mya · The great thaw: cap carbonates

635 Mya — Ancient Life. Tiny microbes flood the air with oxygen, rusting the oceans and freezing Earth into worldwide "Snowball" ice. Complex cells evolve, and the first soft-bodied animals appear on the eve of the Cambrian. Temperature -5.5°C · Sea level +60.00 m · Ice cover 80.0% · Oxygen 8.59%.…