which wiped out the dinosaurs and many other species. Related: Meteor crater: The hole from space that keeps on giving The finding, published in Science Advances, raises the question of whether ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after analyzing deeply drilled rock core from the impact site ...

Geological clues suggest that the space rock that created Chicxulub crater ... an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.

Here’s how it works. Using a "paleothermometer," researchers have determined the temperature of the Chicxulub crater just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid created it 66 million years ago.

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

It was then discovered that the crater, named "Nadir ... mariners told to stay away The asteroid hit the earth about 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs and many other species.