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Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
A "black mat" of algal growth in Arizona marks a line of extinction at 12,900 years ago; Clovis points and mammoth skeletons were found at the line but not above it.
Credit: Allen West, UCSB
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