Consequences of Hypothetical Impact
It is conjectured that this impact event brought about the extinction of many North American Pleistocene megafauna. These animals included camels, mammoths, the giant short-faced bear and numerous other species. The markers for the impact event also appear at the end of the Clovis culture.
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