For one camper, a quick browse on Google Maps led to the discovery of what appears to be a meteor crater ... wiped out the dinosaurs. The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal ... A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. Credit: NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission ...

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 ...

crater. The impact killed all non-avian dinosaurs and decimated marine creatures—but may have also boosted life in a peculiar way. A team of international researchers suggests that the asteroid ...