Scientists have concluded that the impact that created this crater occurred 65 million years ago. The date corresponds perfectly to the date of the dinosaur extinction. Rare Metal The metal ...

The discovery of the Nadir Crater adds a new layer of complexity to our understanding of the events that led to the extinction of dinosaurs. Meanwhile, ESA’s Hera mission will continue to build ...

leading to the dinosaur’s eventual extinction (and the evolution of surviving dinosaurs into today’s birds). The asteroid left a crater over 150 kilometres wide, centred just off the coast of ...

This, remember, is the colossal event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The analysis of rocks drilled in 2016 from the leftover crater show ... and the mass extinction that followed - the Chicxulub ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings ... Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast ...

The day the dinosaurs' world fell apart Splosh ... event is exactly contemporaneous with the extinction." Investigations of a 200km-wide crater under the Gulf of Mexico suggest it is the scar ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Unlike the asteroid impact that catapulted the dinosaurs into extinction on Earth, a gigantic asteroid crater on Mars may have actually been responsible for ...

At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants ... the asteroid or comet that carved the Chicxulub crater caused the extinction of more than half the planet's species at ...

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million ... as is evidenced by a vast 93 mile wide crater beneath the Yucatan Peninsula. This is possibly the best known of the five ...