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Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines) The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] ⓘ cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo ...
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
Artistic impression of an asteroid slamming into tropical, shallow seas of the sulfur-rich Yucatán Peninsula in what is today Southeast Mexico.The aftermath of this immense asteroid collision, which occurred approximately 66 million years ago, is believed to have caused the mass extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and many other species on Earth.
August 16, 2024 at 11:24 AM. German scientists think they've cracked the case on the origins of the giant asteroid that all but wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The huge space rock ...
"So the one that killed the dinosaurs is really special in two ways — by what it did, and also by where it originated." This apocalyptic object is what created the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s ...
Scientists believe they have finally uncovered what killed off dinosaurs. ... When an asteroid between 10 and 15 kilometres wide struck Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula around 66 million years ago, ...
Alvarez hypothesis. The Alvarez hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs and many other living things during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was caused by the impact of a large asteroid on the Earth. Prior to 2013, it was commonly cited as having happened about 65 million years ago, but Renne and ...
The age of the dinosaurs ended 66 million years ago when a city-size asteroid struck a shallow sea off the coast of what is now Mexico. ... (180-kilometer-wide) Chicxulub crater, and soot from ...