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The Comet that Destroyed America [Death From Above]
io9.com - 7/22/2009
The Comet that Destroyed America [Death From Above]
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Dinosaurs may not have been Earth's only creatures to face extinction from above. A team of researchers has found evidence that suggests a comet once hit North America, taking the continent's mammals down with it. Researchers reported this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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America - distroyed by a comet?!
Beam Me Up - Science & Science Fiction news — Now here is an interesting article. It seems, that North America has been destroyed by a comet strike taking all life with it. Not in the past though...well not in the distant past, but a short 13000 years ago. This article from IO9 describes newly uncovered evidence that supports earlier research that suggested that the Clovis people, who went extinct nearly 13,000 years ago — and the disappearance of the pygmy mammoth may in fact have been victims of a large impact event. That research in 2007 suggested that the impact set off huge continental fires that brought about the ...

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