The Chicxulub crater 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 (not the larger …

Dec 9, 2025 · The 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 …

Dec 4, 2023 · The Chicxulub Crater was formed as a result of a catastrophic impact event that occurred approximately 66 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The impacting body is …

Apr 30, 2025 · Chicxulub punches through the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico. This instantly vaporizes the asteroid and the incredible energy of the impact is transferred to the Earth. The resulting …

Sep 9, 2019 · The immense Chicxulub crater is a remnant of one of the most consequential days in the history of life on Earth. The asteroid strike triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass …

The researchers called the crater Chicxulub, a Maya word that roughly translates as “tail of the devil.” The crater, now buried beneath a kilometer-thick sequence of sediments, has been imaged using …

Oct 1, 2024 · It’s well established that the Chicxulub crater is the remnants of the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. But how much do we really know about the asteroid that fell to …

Apr 12, 2022 · The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago caused catastrophic environmental changes, leading to the extinction of three-quarters of plant and animal species, including the dinosaurs.

Chicxulub is a major impact crater associated with the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. An impact crater is a depression or trace formed by the collision of a cosmic object with …

The Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (KTB) mass extinction is primarily known for the demise of the dinosaurs, the Chicxulub impact, and the frequently rancorous thirty years-old controversy over the …