http://clipmarks.com/clipper/invictus/collection/Catastrophism/sort/latest-comments/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/invictus/collection/Catastrophism/sort/latest-comments/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/7953D261-6C66-460F-973D-B56EC119D86E/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/invictus/">invictus</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/30/comet_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070530103000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008" title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/30/comet_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070530103000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008">dsc.discovery.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><SPAN class="primeColor">Study: Comet Wiped Out First Americans</SPAN></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/invictus/512/0BBA3584-8504-48BB-B56E-13D963EFD449.jpg" alt="Could a Comet Have Done It?" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">A large extraterrestrial object exploded over the heads of the first Americans about 13,000 years ago, wiping them out and making big mammals and other prehistoric creatures disappear, according to a new U.S. study.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Presented last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Acapulco, Mexico, the controversial research proposes that the extraterrestrial blast triggered a catastrophic millennium-long cold spell.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The dramatic climate change would have been the major cause for the sudden disappearance of mammoths throughout much of Europe and America and the demise of the Clovis people, the New World's most sophisticated hunters.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/comet/" rel="tag">comet</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/impact/" rel="tag">impact</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/america/" rel="tag">america</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/mammoths/" rel="tag">mammoths</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/extinction/" rel="tag">extinction</a></div>http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/30/comet_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070530103000&dcitc=w19-506-ak-0008Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:41:01 GMT