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Asteroid Impact Caused Ice Age Extinctions?
September 30, 2007 | Science Daily

About 12,900 years ago, wooly mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats and other large animals inhabited North America - then suddenly disappeared. A team of scientists now propose that these extinctions were caused by a climate change triggered by a large impact event.

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