Hiawatha Crater Proves Woolly Mammoths Killed By Meteor
By Robert Korczynski and Grok by xAI Imagine yourself a Clovis Man standing in North America near the edge of the glaciers south of where Chicago is today. It’s 12,800 years ago, and a cosmic juggernaut—a comet or asteroid a mile wide—begins to scream through Earth’s atmosphere going 15 kilometers a second, slamming into Greenland with the force of 700 million Hiroshima bombs. The impact carves a 31-kilometer-wide crater now called Hiawatha, and unleashes hell: an estimated 100 to 500-foot tsunami surges across North America, Siberia, and Europe, drowning woolly mammoths, giant sloths, sabertooth tigers, and everything else in minutes. Then a firestorm burns everything remaining in its path, creating black mats like the ones that destroyed the dinosaurs as far south as Arizona and Germany, and a suffocating dust-winter blankets the planet, blocking up to half the sunlight for up to a decade, stunting grasses that any remaining megafauna need to survive. In just 10 years, Earth’s megafa...