Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

For many, the matter is settled – and there’s a huge crater down in Mexico to act as evidence. However, a minority of experts ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Modern research concludes that the Chicxulub meteorite, rather than volcanic eruptions in India, is primarily responsible for ...

Asteroid impact during that time was frequent, and one such impact was from a meteorite dubbed S2. This impact was far greater than Chicxulub, which ended the age of the dinosaurs. The S2 meteorite, ...

But climate researchers at Utrecht University have now ruled out this scenario, finding that while the roughly contemporaneous volcanoes had a measurable impact on the climate, those impacts were ...

Photograph by Robert Clark Roughly 30 miles to the east of this mangrove swamp sits Chicxulub Puerto, a calm seaside village at the center of an immense impact crater that stretches into the Gulf ...

The scientists therefore conclude that the meteorite impact was the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event. What ...

The scientists therefore conclude that the meteorite impact was the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event. What killed off the dinosaurs—was it the Chicxulub meteorite or did the ...

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Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...