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Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters – Futurism

Asteroids can cause extinctions, sure. But maybe they jumpstarted life in the first place.

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A new study is flipping the script on the effects of massive meteor impacts. While an ancient impact is commonly to the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, scientists are now starting to suspect that an earlier impact could have jumpstarted life on Earth in the first place.
Scientists have long suggested that meteorites carried the ingredients necessary for life to Earth, but new research suggests that meteor impacts also created the ideal conditions for life to emerge as we…

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