166100 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://techcodex.com/apart-from-chicxulub-another-asteroid-might-have-contributed-to-dinosaur-extinction/It has been long believed that dinosaurs went extinct due to an asteroid impact on Earth. A recent discovery may lead to some developments in this theory. Scientists have spotted a mysterious asteroid impact crater on the seafloor which is believed to have formed at the same time when dinosaurs were wiped out from the planet.2022-08-19T05:25+0200techcodex-1731c5de431911d8899594a9ceedc9c720220819052500https://247newsbulletin.com/technology/376836.htmlBritish and American scientists have found, through the analysis of seismic data, off the coast of West Africa, solid evidence for the existence of a possible large submarine crater impact asteroid. The researchers, led by assistant professor of geosciences Wisdin Nicholson of Scotland’s Heriot-Watt....2022-08-18T21:34+0200247newsbulletin-42bb5e465609d1acd497c801181e99ec20220818213400https://scitechdaily.com/massive-impact-crater-beneath-the-north-atlantic-reveals-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-wasnt-alone/Named after a nearby seamount, the Nadir crater is buried up to 1,300 feet (400 meters) below the seabed about 250 miles (400 km) off the coast of Guinea, West Africa. According to the research team, the asteroid that created the newly discovered Nadir crater could have formed by the breakup of a....2022-08-18T20:37+0200google-top-stories-364879fc7379366dfe142a0ef90ee44620220818203700https://nypost.com/2022/08/18/massive-asteroid-crater-left-by-dinosaur-killers-cousin-discovered-in-africa/Scientists have dubbed a newly-discovered crater the “Dinosaur Killer’s Cousin,” estimating the meteorite could have hit Earth around the same time as the asteroid that wiped out prehistoric life millions of years ago. The hidden impact site was found more than 984-feet below the seabed, roughly 248 miles off the coast of Guinea in west Africa.2022-08-18T19:56+0200nypost-62a286035928fb17c432d6d1633b560620220818195600