The ancient memories trapped in the world's glaciers "The age of the [crater] corresponds pretty precisely with the end of a potential global glacial period," Prof Kirkland said. "So the impact ...

It was smashed to tiny little pieces that initially are millimetre sized; and that basically causes this fluid-like behaviour that produces in the end the flat crater floor, which characterises ...

Among other things, the study proved that the crater was, in fact ... which was 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period. So, while the Chicxulub asteroid was the one that killed ...

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 ...