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Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...
Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...
While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact site caused by a meteor.
We also know where this asteroid strike took place – Mexico. The 150-kilometre-wide Chicxulub crater, the second largest on Earth, suggests that an asteroid as wide as 15 kilometres across fell at a ...
A new exhibit at UBC’s Pacific Museum of Earth reveals a tiny glimpse of life at the edge of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The exhibit features a cast of ...
In a new study, scientists reveal that an asteroid impact site called the Hiawatha crater in Greenland is far older than most people had thought.
This indicated that a huge space rock had struck Earth, with a possible location found to be The Chicxulub crater at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - 112 miles (180 km) wide.
But that all changed when a massive asteroid, more than 9 kilometres wide smashed into the Earth's surface right here on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, now known as the Chicxulub crater.
Forged 66 million years ago, an enormous impact crater near Chixculub, Mexico, was left undiscovered until only a few short decades ago. But what caused it?
And for Warshaw and the team at Badlands Dinosaur Museum, this research is about much more than uncovering a new species, it’s about showing the mode of evolution between dinosaurs. The process, ...