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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from McGill University have made an unexpected discovery in Mexican waters. Two new species of reptiles, ...

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 ...

(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 ...

So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

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

Dinosaurs – aside from their bird descendants – went extinct ... which left a crater about 110 miles (180km) wide at a Yucatan site called Chicxulub. The asteroid rocked the continental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs finally met their end, but only partially. Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity.