For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.
A study published in Nature has revealed that the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ... Researchers mapped an underwater crater off the coast of Guinea, known as the Nadir crater ...
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 ...
One such impact killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago ... This is clear from the size of the transient crater as it makes up for 25 per cent of the size of Ganymede. The study has been ...
The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction ... of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West ...
“The fate of the dinosaurs and many other species was sealed by this projectile from the outer reaches of the solar system.” Previous research claimed that the rock was a “long-period ...
This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover crater show they underwent a process of fluidisation. The pulverised ...
They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...