Huge Asteroid Crash 470-Million-Years-Ago Sparked A Boom Of Life On Earth
(World News Science)

Asteroids play a god-like role in the story of life on Earth. But our planet`s relationship with flying space rocks doesn´t always take a destructive form, like the notorious asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. A new study has suggested that a gigantic boom of biodiversity on Earth that occurred around 470 million years ago could all be thanks to a cataclysmic...