Here’s how it works. Sixty-six million years ago, a mountain-size asteroid slammed into Earth just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, dooming the dinosaurs and leading to their ...

in diameter - struck Greenland about 8 million years after a larger asteroid impact at Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula wiped out the dinosaurs. Sign up here. The crater lies beneath Greenland's ...

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 ...

That was not the case about 18 million years later, when a much larger meteorite crashed into the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatan. That was around 65 million years ago, and that impact triggered ...

If these objects avoid completely disintegrating and manage to reach the ground they are known as meteorites. Local reports suggest that the meteorite fell near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the ...

The Mesozoic Era, often called “the Age of Dinosaurs”, ended 66 million years ago when a 6-mile-wide meteorite crashed ... on the crater’s edge on the Yucatan Peninsula.