According to the research of Richard Firestone, the Holocene Impact Working Group and many other scientists from several disciplines, around 11,000 BC a massive comet exploded over what was then a three-mile thick glacier in the region of what is now the Great Lakes of North America.
The comet struck the atmosphere, broke into pieces and rained down fire and death, wiping out the early Paleo-Americans, also known as Clovis people and extinguishing several species of large mammals (called “megafauna”), such as the woolly mammoth, mastodon, short-faced bear, saber-toothed cat, giant ground sloth, giant armadillo, the American camel and the American lion.
When this theory first emerged, as usual it was hotly debated but the subsequent discovery of unusually-shaped micro-diamonds in that sediment layer, in both North America and in Europe lent support to a massive, high-pressure impact occurring at that time.
What is often overlooked is that we are NOW in the middle of the Sixth Extinction, without all of the hoopla of a cometary impact. The current extinction event has been ongoing since the 1700s ACE and is often attributed to the activities of modern man, although arguments exist that mass extinctions follow cyclical patterns that have long preceded the depredations of an overpopulated industrialized society.
By the end of this century, 50 percent of the 10 million species presently living on Earth are projected to be extinct.
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