Comet impact cited in ancient mass extinction

A comet that crashed into Earth 250 million years ago set off a horrific chain of events that eventually wiped out 90 percent of all life on the planet, researchers said Thursday. "It was the mother of all extinctions," said Luann Becker, an Earth and space scientist at the University of Washington...

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