Scientists find a new asteroid crater that may shed light on Dinosaurs' extinction
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Scientists may learn more clues about the extinction of dinosaurs after discovering a large asteroid crater off the coast of west Africa.
Given the name the Nadir Crater, it is located off the coast of Guinea, West Africa, and is 300m below the sea and 400km from the nearest land with a diameter of 8.5km. Although Nadir is not as large as Chicxulub, an analysis of the age of nearby fossils indicates it is a very similar age.
The discovery was made by Dr. Uisdean Nicholson, a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. Originally, he was examining seismic survey data when he fell came upon evidence of the crater.
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