For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

When a large dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub crater was formed. It is buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and has been ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of ... Long before the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs crashed to Earth, our planet was being bombarded ...

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 ...

Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction. Rare Metal The metal ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

The debate over what killed the dinosaurs has remained unsettled for ... That theory involved a huge crater found in the Gulf of Mexico which was large enough that the impact that created it ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.