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Chicxulub crater - Wikipedia The crater was discovered by Antonio Camargo and Glen Penfield, geophysicists who had been looking for petroleum in the Yucatán Peninsula during the late 1970s
Updated: Drilling of dinosaur-killing impact crater explains . . . - AAAS UPDATE: Today, scientists published their first results from a drilling expedition into Chicxulub crater, the buried remnants of an asteroid impact off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Asteroid Dust Found in Crater Closes Case of Dinosaur Extinction AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater
New theory behind Chicxulub impactor that killed the dinosaurs It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago The Chicxulub impactor, as it’s known, was a plummeting asteroid or comet that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that spans 93 miles and goes 12 miles deep
How an asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs - Natural History Museum How big was the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs? “An asteroid impact is supported by really good evidence because we've identified the crater,” says Paul “It’s now largely buried on the seafloor off the coast of Mexico
From Destruction to Rebirth: How the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Sparked . . . It unleashed apocalyptic firestorms, global darkness, and a cascade of extinction that wiped out three-quarters of all species on Earth—including the non-avian dinosaurs But in a remarkable twist of fate, this very site of mass death—the Chicxulub crater—also became a cradle of life