End of the World

A large meteorite collided 380 million years ago into what is now the Moroccan desert and may have caused one of the five known mass extinctions of life on Earth. Until now the Chixculub crater in the Gulf of Mexico, where a 10-kilometer (6-mile) asteroid struck 65 million years ago, was the only known impact convincingly connected to a mass extinction, an American-Moroccan team write in the latest issue of the journal Science. The new discovery strengthens support for the idea that ...
Author: TelLieVision1; Tags: End of the World Large Meteors Meteorite Asteroid Crater Million Years Extraterrestrial Chixculub Gulf Mexico Morocco Woodleigh Anti Atlas Desert Rissani Permian Devonian Era Impact Collision Catastrophes Mass Extinction Life Earth Globe Planet Science Discovery Origin Evolution Geologists Fossil Record Carbon Isotope Space Species Vertebrate Animal Died Out


















