Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10–15 kilometers in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

This apocalyptic object is what created the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Although researchers could not study a direct sample of the asteroid since it was destroyed ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped ... of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object dug a hole ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself ... by an arc of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have formed in ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

the emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the unusual geography shaped by an asteroid millions of years ago. But you might also note something else: gaps in the forest cover gashed out by massive ...