Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico, and a herd of spectacular creatures is on the move. About thirty ...

New research has found that the dinosaur killing asteroid, which struck Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula 66 million years ago, also triggered a “mega earthquake.” ...

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.

Researchers from the University of Michigan studied the asteroid’s impact site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula — along with 100 other locations around the globe — and managed to recreate ...

Scientists plan to drill into an impact crater where the remnants of a killer asteroid lie off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The Chicxulub crater is the spot where an asteroid stuck 66 million ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the Yucatan Peninsula was home to a colossal, powerful asteroid impact, one that created an instantaneous, transient mountain range, massive firestorms, and ...

The asteroid brought a monstrous tsunami with mile-high waves that scoured the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact site in Mexico. Search for: Science ...

Thanks to a new evolutionary analysis, researchers discovered that the little lizards, in the family Xantusiidae, were living around the Gulf of Mexico before and after the asteroid struck what is now ...

Although an asteroid remains the leading candidate, a team based at the Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., has proposed that the culprit may have been an icy comet that flew too close ...

The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs hit in spring the northern ... Those shock waves jolted bodies of water thousands of miles from the asteroid's impact site near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, ...