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Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

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

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

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“The Chicxulub impact event completely modified the geologic and biologic evolution of planet Earth,” said David Kring, a planetary geologist who leads the Center for Lunar Science and ...

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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.

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, ...