Exploding asteroid theory strengthened by new evidence located in Ohio, Indiana

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 15:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans -- to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada.

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