Direct answer: The asteroid that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction struck the Yucatán Peninsula, creating the Chicxulub crater, and is believed to have caused global mass extinction around 66 million years ago. The most widely supported location of the impact is beneath the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatán region, with the crater now partially buried under seafloor sediments.[9][10]
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Would you like a brief timeline of the key evidence (iridium layer, shocked quartz, Chicxulub crater dating) and a map-style description of the location? I can also pull a concise, cited summary from current science outlets.
Fossil evidence shows that the asteroid that caused the dinosaurs' extinction hit during springtime. This timing may have made certain species, like dinosaurs, more vulnerable while allowing others, such as birds, to survive. The asteroid which killed nearly all of the dinosaurs struck Earth duri
scitechdaily.comA "sungrazed" comet may be responsible for the extinction event around 66 million years ago.
news.sky.comDiscovery of fossilised leg may finally prove that asteroid wiped out dinosaurs on Earth
www.independent.co.ukSome of them landed in tree resin, which provided a protective enclosure of amber, keeping them almost as pristine as the day they formed
www.deccanherald.comIt went down 66 million years ago.
www.space.com(The New York Times) Shards of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Have Been Found in Fossil Site. Associated research findings from the National Library of Medicine.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.govNorth Dakota fossils may depict the aftermath of the dinosaur-killing asteroid, but controversial claims about the breadth of the find are unproven.
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