The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

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 ...

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

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact ... dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals living at the time. This 150-kilometer-wide ...

(CNN)-- A team of scientists has agreed that a giant asteroid killed off dinosaurs and ... University of California San Diego. The impact caused a crater 24 miles deep and 125 miles wide ...

The 112-mile (180 kilometers) Chicxulub crater in Mexico was made by the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs and about 70 percent of all species on Earth, many scientists believe.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs ... at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater environment.

Disney’s ground breaking animation Fantasia featured The Rite of Spring, depicting Earth’s early history and the extinction ...