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 ... causing an “impact winter” that lasted for 15 years. Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled ...

Geochemists have managed to link the fallout material directly to the so-called Chicxulub impact site in the Gulf ... hours to reach the site from the crater, but seismic waves - and a subsequent ...

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

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

The space object, which wiped out 75% of all species including the dinosaurs, hit the worst possible place on the planet and - according to new research - at the most lethal angle. Investigations ...

Hidden beneath the East Coast of the United States lies the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, a colossal structure formed 35 ...

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

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

the Chicxulub asteroid, estimated to be 10-15 kilometer in diameter, struck the Yucatán Peninsula (in current-day Mexico), creating a 200-kilometer-wide impact crater. This impact triggered a ...