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Default SCIENTISTS FIND SIGNS OF 13,000-YEAR-OLD EXTINCTION EVENT

Scientists find signs of 13,000-year-old extinction event

By Robert Mitchum
Chicago Tribune
Friday, January 2, 2009

Comet may have exploded over planet, causing fires, die-
offs, researchers say A meteorite colliding with the Earth
65 million years ago is considered to be the most likely
reason dinosaurs vanished from the planet. Now a team of
scientists says it has found new evidence that an object
from space caused a similar extinction event only 13,000
years ago. In an article to be published Friday in the
journal Science, researchers present what one author calls
the "smoking bullet" -- proof that an exploding comet
triggered the sudden, thousand-year freeze that killed off
mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and other large mammals that
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