Death from Above: Mass Extinctions Tied to Comet Strikes

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 08:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Over the past 260 million years, cratering rates have peaked every 26 million years or so, in tune with a previously noted cycle of mass-extinction events, researchers found.

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