There is consensus among scientists that the mass extinction was caused by the impact of a large asteroid or comet that hit the Yucatan Peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Artwork: The asteroid hit what is now the Gulf of Mexico but its effects were global Scientists can't pinpoint the exact year that an asteroid came out of the sky to wipe out the dinosaurs but ...

The anomaly found in the Gulf of Mexico ... As a result, a crater some 124 miles in diameter formed.” Volcanism could have also played a part in the extinction event, but the asteroid impact ...

Study coauthor Chris Lowry, a postdoc at the University of Texas, and colleagues made the discovery after analyzing rock samples taken from beneath Chicxulub crater, which sits in the Gulf of Mexico ...

It’s thought that the huge Chicxulub crater in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a 6 miles/10 kilometers diameter asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiping out the dinosaurs.

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 ...

Scientists have long accepted that an asteroid that struck ... given that the crater extends 12 miles into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Gulick and his colleague, Joanna Morgan, collected ...