An asteroid more than six miles in diameter slammed into what is today Mexico READ MORE: Enjoy a glass of wine? Thank the extinction of the dinosaurs! It is well known that the reign of the ...

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 event is blamed for the demise of three-quarters of plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs ... of sinkholes Max Alexander/B612/Asteroid Day Mexico's famous sinkholes (cenotes ...

Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction The Chicxulub ... centred just off the coast of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. It was named after Chicxulub Pueblo, a ...

The impact, which occurred in present-day Mexico ... The dinosaurs fried, then froze. According to a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, if the Chicxulub asteroid ...

Dinosaurs are a group of pre-historic ... It's thought that the meteor hit the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico (with the area now known as the Chicxulub crater). The diameter of the impact crater ...