Scientists to Drill Chicxulub Crater for Clues to Mass Extinction Event
Sixty - six million years ago , a giant asteroid slam into Earth near what is now Mexico ’s Yucatan Peninsula . The impact was so powerful that it belike killed off the dinosaurs and most of Earth ’s other organism . Now , Sciencereportsthat researchers plan to drill into the affection of the giantChicxulub crater , a 110 - mi - broad , 12 - mile - deep impression that researchers believe resulted from the hit ....