Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the catastrophe.

also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 years, the researchers concluded. In the core drilled from the impact site, called "Chicxulub crater" (which you ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in ...

The researchers found evidence that osmium from the asteroid buried kilometers beneath the impact crater was continuously released in the Gulf of Mexico due to submarine hydrothermal activity.

A hydrothermal system near the coast of Mexico, caused by the same asteroid event that killed the dinosaurs, lasted 700,000 ...

slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, said Richard Norris, a paleoceanographer at the University of California San Diego. The impact caused a crater 24 miles deep and 125 miles wide, according to ...

The researchers found evidence that osmium from the asteroid buried kilometers beneath the impact crater was continuously released in the Gulf of Mexico due to submarine hydrothermal activity.

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. A gravity ...

The researchers found evidence that osmium from the asteroid buried kilometers beneath the impact crater was continuously released in the Gulf of Mexico due to submarine hydrothermal activity.