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Published online 2 June 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060529-11
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Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice?
Signs of an ancient impact could help to explain a mass extinction.
Evidence of a cataclysmic meteorite impact has been unearthed in Antarctica, according to researchers who say the collision could possibly explain the greatest mass extinction ever seen on our planet. But scientists contacted by _news@nature.
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