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Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest in the world reveals a number of clues to the early ...

Scientific experts have been looking into whether the Earth’s first continent was formed by meteor ... year-old crater can be found in South Africa and is also the world’s biggest at over ...