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

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 150-kilometre-wide Chicxulub crater, the second largest on Earth, suggests that an asteroid as wide as 15 kilometres across fell at a steep angle and instantly vaporised everything nearby. This ...

A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Sato et al.

However, in 1991, scientists found that the Chicxulub crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid strike coinciding with the demise of the dinosaurs.

Just off of the western coast of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula lies the 12 mile deep, 6.2 mile wide Chicxulub crater.The 66 million year-old impact crater is the site where a massive asteroid ...

Seen here is the section of rock core from Chicxulub Crater in which researchers found a concentration of iridium, a tracer for asteroid material, mixed with ash from the impact and ocean sediment.