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

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

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly ... This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into ...

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

leading to the dinosaur’s eventual extinction (and the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today’s birds). The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of ...

Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula ... understand the dinosaur extinction event, scientists ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million ... as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

The debate over what killed the dinosaurs has remained ... of asteroid dust found in the crater with other samples that were aged to the exact time of the mass extinction. Finding a layer of ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants ... the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the planet's species at ...