Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico ...

Credit: Sato et al. A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. Credit: NASA Shuttle Radar ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

A new study challenges the belief that dinosaurs were declining before the asteroid impact that ended their reign. Analysing 18 million years of fossil data, researchers argue that apparent drops in ...

The most likely explanation is an asteroid measuring 6 to 10 miles across landing on the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico forming what we now call the Chicxulub crater. This giant impact (the ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Mexico City: Two people have died after a decorative structure at a Mexico City music festival collapsed on them, local authorities said. The structure was being moved by a crane at the Axe ...

On a remote reef off the coast of Mexico, a new species of predator was discovered. Marek Okon via Unsplash On a remote reef about 90 miles off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, a predatory fish ...