About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site created by the six-mile-wide asteroid, geologists have ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous ... in a 900-square-mile area throughout the Gulf of Mexico, along with their varying formations along ...

The study highlights fossilized specimens, including fish, trees, and marine ammonites, all of which were deposited by large surges of water caused by the asteroid impact, which occurred near the ...

(CNN)-- A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid ... into the Gulf of Mexico, said Richard Norris, a paleoceanographer at the University of California San Diego. The impact caused ...

"After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ecological recovery process that is quite different from that of the global ocean, as continuous hydrothermal activity has created a ...