Meteorite impacts are often associated with huge disasters, mass extinction and why the dinosaurs disappeared from the face of the Earth some 65 million years ago. However, the opposite may also occur - that new and more varied animal life arises following such a catastrophe, is shown by new research conducted by the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Together with colleagues from Lund University in Sweden, two palaeontologists, Svend Stouge and Dave Harper, have discovered that the Earth in the so-called Ordovician period 490-440 million years ago was struck by more than 100 meteorites at one time, and that in the wake of this event, new and more varied life evolved in the oceans, which at that time were home to virtually all life on Earth. "You could say that biological evolution experienced a serious boost within a relatively short period of time. And, as is the case with, for example, volcanic eruptions or large forest fires, the impacts initially had a devastating effect on all life, but from the ashes arose a much richer fauna than had existed previously. And another interesting aspect is that this situation occurred 40 million years after the so-called Cambrian explosion. It was during this explosion that the first complex multicellular creatures appeared, even though scientists are still discussing whether this evolution was a rapid explosion or whether it took place over a longer period of time," says Dave Harper from the University of Copenhagen.

The conclusions of the two scientists are, among other things, based on computer analyses, chemical samples from meteorites, fossils and examination of different craters in Sweden, for example the large Lockne crater near Østersund in northern Sweden, which has a diameter of 7.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 110406.htm

Amazing!

my "you didnt read the text but just looked at the pic" sence is tingling

I was referring only to the pic,matey...who cares 'bout some lame text full of numbers?

atleast read the title so your awnser dousnt look that stupid

Ok then...*pretends to read text* Oh noes!

ok stop the spam

Meteors creating life are amazing in my opinion.

Okay I read the story and I still stand by my post.

Which one?

OK.

off course they do
how do you think water came on this planet oxygen and all that stuff

Because of trees and it was there?

well water is made out of lower level elements, the earth had those wen it was created

he means before that