The asteroid that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction struck off the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, creating the Chicxulub crater. This crater is the widely accepted impact site linked to the mass extinction about 66 million years ago.[3][8]
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The Chicxulub crater stretches 200 kilometers across and reaches one kilometer deep beneath the limestone layers of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most of the structure lies underwater in the Gulf of Mexico...
aroundus.comThe asteroid that caused the extinction of dinosaurs struck near what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The impact site is known as the Chicxulub crater.
dinosaurbase.comThe Chicxulub crater is an impact crater located off the Yucatán Peninsula that formed through an asteroid impact about 66 million years ago. The impact and resulting climate change is believed to have led to the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
www.britannica.comJust where the deadly space rock came from is still up in the air.
www.space.comDrilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record of the single worst day in the history of life on Earth, when a city-sized asteroid smashed into the planet 65…
www.foxnews.comChicxulub crater is an impact crater with a diameter more than 180 km. The reason why 65 million years happened the great extinction of life on Earth.
www.wondermondo.comRock samples hold clues to origin of impactor that sparked a mass extinction 66 million years ago.
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