Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic consequences. The Free Devort Impact in South Africa marks the largest ...

Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico ...

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While the Chicxulub asteroid landed tens of millions of years ago, learning about this ancient space rock is important because it’s “part of a bigger picture of understanding the dynamic ...

In the following decade, Chicxulub Crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. And because the crater appeared to be the same age as the global rock layer enriched with asteroid dust, ...

But prior to the dinosaurs going away with the Chicxulub impact, signaling the end of the Cretaceous Period, things looked very different. The area’s plant coverage was relatively sparse, ...

But Chicxulub also sheds light on some of the most evocative questions about the emergence of life. Dr. Kring has long been fascinated by this subject, ...

Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years. Asteroid crater on the Yucatán Peninsula reveals surprising new geologic details.

Astronomers announced more proof today (Feb. 7) that the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago led to mass extinction of dinosaurs. The idea was not always universally accepted.

If the Chicxulub Asteroid Had Hit Somewhere Else, Dinosaurs May Never Have Gone Extinct Nov 09, 2017 at 9:07 AM EST . An artist’s impression of an asteroid impacting Earth.

Chicxulub crater The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a small town close to ...