A long-standing theory that an equatorial belt of warm water fostered life during the Earth’s Ice Age has been dismissed by a new study.
New findings by scientists from Vienna University, in the Austrian capital and the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe (KIT), in the south-western German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, show that the hotspot almost certainly never existed.
It has long been argued that unfrozen equatorial waters could have preserved multi-cellular life like sponges while the rest of the world was frozen.
