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New Evidence Says An Exploding Comet Wiped Out The Clovis Culture And Triggered The Younger Dryas


A swarm of fragments from an air burst comet could've triggered the Younger Dryas cooling period. A wave of megafauna extinctions followed, as did the disappearance of the Clovis culture.

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