The research in North Carolina documents downstream remnants of the 35-million-year-old tsunami that followed the ...

The Chicxulub Crater in Mexico, one of the most significant craters, is known for its association with the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

Amid all the rhetoric, however, it became clear to Hermann that few people really understood the uniqueness of the Gulf itself. After all, it’s the place where a meteor struck the Earth 66 ...

4. Chicxulub Impact In the most famous cosmic catastrophe known to popular imagination, the Chicxulub Impactor ended the reign of the reptiles 66 million years ago, generating a massive crater that ...

A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Sato et al.

A gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula. "After the asteroid impact, the Gulf of Mexico records an ecological recovery process that is quite different from that of the ...

To garner the results of this study, the research team looked at the impacts of two major asteroids from the late Eocene epoch (about 38 million years to 33 million years ago). One created the 60-mile ...

The space rock left a sterile crater nearly 20 miles deep in what is now the Gulf of Mexico. Not a single living thing could have survived. But even at ground zero, life managed to return, and ...

The latest evidence comes from rock core samples plucked from Chicxulub Crater itself, which is buried beneath the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico. In the most recent study based on these samples ...