The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the ...

whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at least two dinosaur-killing asteroids. The impact crater of the second one lies ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula ... Plumes of sulphur-based gases and fine dust blocked out the sun, causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust ...

July 14, 2020 — The impact event that formed the Chicxulub crater (Yucatán Peninsula, México) caused the extinction of 75% of species on Earth 66 million years ago, including non-avian ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula ... Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds ...