By ROKU GODA/ Staff Writer
November 21, 2019 at 14:10 JST
The coast of Minami-Torishima island in the Ogasawara island chain south of Tokyo (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
A mass extinction event 11.6 million years ago was apparently due to a huge meteor impact in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Minami-Torishima island 1,860 kilometers southeast of Tokyo in the Ogasawara island chain, say researchers. [Read More]
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