Researchers have discovered the meteor which killed the dinos originated ... Sediment samples taken from what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula were analysed by a team of scientists who have ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago. According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur ...