The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological ...

The dinosaurs—besides the ancestors of modern birds, of course—went extinct 66 million years ... the research team published images of the asteroid impact crater, confirmed its age at 66 ...

Some 66 million years ago, a city-size asteroid barreled through ... layer that corresponds to the dinosaurs’ extinction. In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

The aftereffects of the collision resulted in the extinction of an estimated 75% of animal species, including most dinosaurs ... crater was the right age to have been formed by a massive asteroid ...

Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater ... at the mass extinction event that followed. You may like 52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or ... impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction.

This cataclysmic event left behind the infamous Chicxulub crater, which is buried ... have strongly shown that this asteroid was the culprit for the dinosaur extinction. Researchers particularly ...

which wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species. Related: Meteor crater: The hole from space that keeps on giving The finding, published in Science Advances, raises the question of whether ...

A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of ...

Whether volcanic activity played a major role in the dinosaur extinction remains ... caused that giant six-mile-wide crater in Mexico was definitely an asteroid made up of metals and rocky material.