Drilling for Evidence of Life (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Drilling for Evidence of Life

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The core containing the first signs of life after the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was recovered from the crater by a 2016 scientific drilling mission conducted from the Lift Boat Myrtle (pictured here), a boat raised above the seafloor by three legs.

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Chris Lowery, The University of Texas at Austin

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