Intriguingly, the crater, named "Nadir" after the nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, is of the same age as the Chicxulub impact caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 ...

Geologists Find Clues In Crater Left By Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid : The Two-Way Scientists drilling beneath the Gulf of Mexico have hit the layer deposited when an asteroid the size of Staten ...

So then, what killed the dinosaurs in such a sudden fashion? Whatever it was, it also destroyed 75 percent of all plants and ...

A previously undiscovered asteroid crater off the coast of West Africa may hold some answers about how Dinosaurs went extinct. Approximately 66 million years ago, a large asteroid, whose crater is ...

“Our simulations suggest this crater was caused by the collision of a 1,312-mile wide asteroid in 1,640-2,624-feet of water,” Dr. Veronica Bray of the University of Arizona said.

Scientists to drill at site of dinosaur-killing asteroid crater By Jareen Imam, CNN 3 minute read Published 1:18 PM EST, Fri March 4, 2016 Link Copied! New ...

Dinosaur-killing Asteroid Caused Rock to Flow Like Liquid, Scientists Drilling Into Crater Discover. Published Oct 24, 2018 at 1:00 PM EDT Updated Oct 29, 2018 at 11:13 AM EDT. By .

The crater would have been caused by an asteroid that was 1,200 feet (400 m) wide — roughly the height of the Empire State Building. It would have been a bad day to be a fish.

A 65-million-year-old crater offers rare evidence. Thirty-three scientists from around the world, including one co-leader from the U.S., are collecting rock samples from the Chicxulub impact ...

Scientists plan to drill into an impact crater where the remnants of a killer asteroid lie off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The Chicxulub crater is the spot where an asteroid stuck 66 million ...