Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

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 Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

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.

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.