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Remote Scottish isles may solve ice age puzzle

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Garvellach islands off the west coast of Scotland are the best record of Earth entering its biggest ever ice age around 720 million years ago .

The big freeze, which covered nearly all the globe in two phases for 80 million years , is known as " Snowball Earth " after which the first animal life emerged.

Clues hidden in rocks about the freeze have been wiped out everywhere.

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English

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