The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula ... The colossal impact event, which triggered a mass extinction event over ...

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 ...

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the ...

(CNN) --The disappearance of the dinosaurs may not be as neat and ... The single asteroid theory involves the Chicxulub crater in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, in the time between the Cretaceous ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

in Yucatan on May 31. Lorenzo Hernández Agencia EFE Mérida, México Tyranosaurus rex, velociraptor, brachiosaurus and diplodocus are some of the dinosaur species that went extinct 66 million ...

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 ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula ... which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land ...