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 ...
For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...
Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that ... The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide ...
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 ...
The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed ...
UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions ...