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You survive Earth’s worst mass extinctions, but nature keeps trying to kill you

Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.

Oklahoma crater may be 100 million years younger than thought, shifting it toward a mass extinction event

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 ...

A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...

New dating rewrites history of Oklahoma meteor crater

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have traced the Ames meteor impact to approximately 370 million years ago, presenting a significant revision to the previously accepted estimate of ...
Science Daily

A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought

A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, ...

Ames crater, once linked to a 470-million-year-old event, may be nearly 370 million years old

Research indicates that the Ames impact structure may have formed during the Late Devonian period. This finding challenges earlier beliefs connecting the structure to the Ordovician Meteor Event.
The Financial Express

Late Ordovician mass extinction: Research looks at new reason for first mass extinction on Earth

Earth’s first mass extinction: When anyone thinks of mass extinction on Earth, the first thing they think of is the extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, likely as an impact of comet or ...