The crater is the only natural predator of meteors. This is why the moon, which has many craters, has never had a mass extinction from a meteor impact, but the earth has.

Shitty facts about animals, from Trashpandas to Slowbears to Jackdaws. Cute pictures accompanied by shitty titles, like "TIL Zoos can only have one emperor penguin at a time; any more leads to a political coup d'รฉtat."