Aftermath
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Gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub impact structure (From Wikimedia Commons) In the late ’70, the discovery of anomalously…
Gravity anomaly map of the Chicxulub impact structure (From Wikimedia Commons) In the late ’70, the discovery of anomalously…
В течение первых суток после падения астероида, в кратере образовался 130-метровый слой расплавленных пород.
Suzanne O’Connell, Wesleyan…
Within 30,000 years of impact, Mexico’s Chicxulub crater fostered a thriving ecosystem - a much faster recovery than many sites…
The Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction ended the reign of the dinosaurs and wiped out 76% of species on Earth. It was caused…
Featured Image: A reconstruction of the antiarch Phymolepis cuifengshanensis from the Devonian of China. Art by Dinghua Yang.
Site M0077 in the Chicxulub crater as seen using gravity data. From Lowery et al., 2018. In the late ’70, the discovery of…
Although the asteroid killed off species, new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the crater it…
Around 66 million years ago, a city-sized space rock splashed into the Gulf of Mexico and killed 75 percent of life on Earth…
We don't know much about how life bounces back after such a dramatic event.
Enlarge / These plankton apparently didn't mind living in a still-warm seafloor crater. (credit: John Maisano/University of…