impact crater in the Yucatán Peninsula, in what we now call Mexico. What followed killed off 75 percent of species on Earth, ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

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 ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs ... been an asteroid impact of this size in human history, and scientists normally have to study eroded craters on Earth or images ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact ... dinosaurs, but of up to 70 percent of all plants and animals living at the time. This 150-kilometer-wide ...

For decades, the scientific community has largely agreed that amassive asteroid impact 66 million years ago led to the mass ...

66 million years ago an asteroid hit the planet. Now an expedition is underway to drill 1500m into the crater it created - the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater, aiming to unearthing the secrets that ...

Scientists have long accepted that an asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs ... of the Chicxulub impact crater - a challenging feat ...

What killed off the dinosaurs? For many, the matter is settled – and there’s a huge crater down in Mexico ... instead that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was simply a bombastic end to an ...

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression ... Chicxulub impact that may have triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Note that the rate of impact cratering ...

This impact triggered a chain reaction of destructive events, including a rapid climate change that eventually led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and, in total, about 75% of species ...