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 menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

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 ...

"Dinosaurs are very popular ... Keller said geologic studies of the Yucatan crater may also benefit the planet's current inhabitants, by providing insight on global warming and asteroid and ...

Ryan Carney, University of South Florida One of the most remarkable fossils of the birdlike dinosaur Archaeopteryx ... at the center of an immense impact crater that stretches into the Gulf ...

And mammals sat poised to fill the void that soon would be left by the vanished dinosaurs. A giant crater smoldered on what would become known as the Yucatán Peninsula. Whether or not the ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period ... as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five largest mass ...

The diameter of the impact crater is about 110 miles with a depth of 12 miles. This event caused the rapid and global extinction of non-avian dinosaurs across the globe. Millions of years down the ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.

in Yucatan on May 31. Lorenzo Hernández Agencia EFE Mérida, México Tyranosaurus rex, velociraptor, brachiosaurus and diplodocus are some of the dinosaur species that went extinct 66 million ...