A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs ... underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that ...

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 meteorite hit Earth about 66 million years ago near what today is the Yucatán peninsula, causing widespread destruction and death. But almost simultaneously, intense volcanism covered a vast ...

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 ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán ...

It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago ... under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object ...

The asteroid impact 66 million years ago led not just to the extinction ... before the huge asteroid struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. But after the devastating impact, plant ...

The current theory is that around 66 million years ago, 3/4 of the planet's plant ... It's thought that the meteor hit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico (with the area now known as the Chicxulub ...