Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

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

From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

Marine fossils and rock fragments found in southeastern Missouri appear to have been deposited there by a massive wave generated by the asteroid hitting what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Among ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom.. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid thought to be around 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) in diameter impacted the Earth, forming a crater 200 kilometers (120 miles) in diameter, and 1 kilometer (0. ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene ... a six-mile-wide asteroid smashed down just north of what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The Earth bears geologic evidence of past cosmic impacts, such as the 125-mile-wide Chixculub Crater in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which was the likely impact site of the 6-mile-wide asteroid ...

Mexico’s Safest State Risks Being Overwhelmed by Its Own Success Yucatán needs to balance growth with protecting its fragile environment if it doesn’t want to become the next Cancún ...

In 1980, the first paper to suggest that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs came out, under the pleasingly dramatic title "Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction".