A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

a massive asteroid slammed into Earth. The Chicxulub impactor, as it is called, famously wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs ...

The outer rim (white arc) of the crater lies under the Yucatan Peninsula itself ... is traced by an arc of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes) have ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...

Scientists have found an extraordinary snapshot of the fallout from the asteroid impact ... of the crater lies partly under Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula A 12km-wide object dug a hole in Earth's ...

It was widely accepted that the Chicxulub meteorite impact was a major cause, as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...

This 150-kilometer-wide crater lies just off the Yucatan peninsula. Scientists calculate that it was blasted into Earth by a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second ...

For the first time in history, a team of international scientists are drilling into the center of the underwater crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Produced by Jenner Deal.

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 ... "For example, the spot on the Yucatan peninsula were the Chicxulub impact occurred happened to have large salt and ...