Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, and many other large animals went extinct. Around the same time, the Clovis ...
New evidence suggests that about 12,000 years ago, a comet which had possibly already broken into several pieces, exploded over the Atacama Desert in Chile. The heat from the explosion fused soil over ...
Researchers say they finally know why slabs of glass litter this desert: An ancient, exploding comet
An ancient fireball that blasted by a massive desert in Chile some 12,000 years ago created slabs of twisted glass that measure up to a foot and a half in length. That's according to a newly published ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds shocked quartz at key sites, strengthening the case for a comet airburst during Ice Age extinctions. (CREDIT: ...
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