When the 7.5-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago, it killed most living creatures within ...

A night lizards of the family Xantusiidae survived the giant asteroid strike that ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago near the epicenter of the impact. Remarkably, these reptiles ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, researchers ...

The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to this point.

From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

Dinosaurs Scientists find a new asteroid crater that may shed light on Dinosaurs' extinction Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago after an asteroid plunged into the Gulf of Mexico ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater — the impact that is said to have wiped out the dinosaurs — in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been roughly 7.4-miles across and changed ...

The crater formed 2 billion years ago when ... The asteroid that created Earth’s largest ... causing the extinction of most species of dinosaurs and forming the Chicxulub crater in Mexico.

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...