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The gigantic asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs slammed into Earth at the "deadliest possible angle," new research claims. New simulations performed by British scientists show that the ...

Dinosaurs went extinct roughly 66 million years ago, marking the end of the Cretaceous Period, after an asteroid about 7 miles wide struck what is now the Yucatán peninsula off Mexico.

The known asteroid — that is, the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs — landed in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and left an impact site known as the Chicxulub crater.

The asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs sixty-six million years ago also created a "mega-tsunami" whose waves grew more than a mile high, according to a new study.

Drilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record of the day 65 million years ago when a city-sized asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of ...

When the 7.5-mile-wide Chicxulub asteroid smashed into Earth 66 million years ago, it killed most living creatures within hundreds of miles of the impact site. In the chaotic aftermath of the ...

We Know the Origins of the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs. New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction.

“So far, Chicxulub, among the 500-million-year-old impactors, seems to be a unique and rare case of a carbonaceous-type asteroid hitting Earth,” Dr. Fischer-Gödde said.

A tiny fragment of the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have been found encased in amber -- a discovery NASA has described as "mind-blowing." ...

Fragment of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs may have been found By Katie Hunt, CNN 6 min read Published 8:25 AM EDT, Wed May 11, 2022 Link Copied! This amber ...