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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

These living reptiles were found close to the impact crater of the asteroid that likely ended the reign ... This method led to the identification of the two new crocodile species in Mexico. It ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

Also, crucially, there are shock-altered minerals that closely resemble those found in famous impact sites such as Chicxulub (Mexico ... systems and form crater lakes that enable the concentration ...

Painted Cliffs Rest Area: Off I-40 just west of the New Mexico state line ... Though named for Meteor Crater, this rest area doesn't offer views of the 50,000-year-old meteorite impact site. It does ...

Also, crucially, there are shock-altered minerals that closely resemble those found in famous impact sites such as Chicxulub (Mexico) and Sudbury (Canada ... generate long-lived hydrothermal systems ...

About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid struck the Earth in the Gulf of Mexico. The enormous Chicxulub ... Another large asteroid impact, about 35 million years ago, made a huge crater in the area ...