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Daily Mirror
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Charlotte Hawes

Mystery ocean crater discovered is 'related' to the meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs

The Earth's ocean floor is notoriously less researched than Mars' surface, but recently, top researchers plunged into the deep blue to find a shocking discovery.

As researchers Uisdean Nicholson, Sean Gulick and Veronica Bray were about to discover what lies on the ocean floor, they discovered a mysterious crater that is said to be 'related' to the meteorite that saw the end of the dinosaurs.

It was then discovered that the crater, named "Nadir" after nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact which was caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period.

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