The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

I've been living in Mexico recently where I've learned to speak the Yucatec Maya language, the indigenous language of the Yucatan peninsula which has been spoken in this region for thousands of years.

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing ...

The most likely explanation is an asteroid measuring 6 to 10 miles across landing on the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico forming what we now call the Chicxulub crater. This giant impact (the ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

Mexico’s Yucatán state Congress has approved the decriminalization of abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation, amending the penal code, although the state constitution continues to protect life ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...