also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 years, the researchers concluded. In the core ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

slammed into the Gulf of Mexico, said Richard Norris, a paleoceanographer at the University of California San Diego. The impact caused a crater 24 miles deep and 125 miles wide, according to ...

A graphic showing how the environment in the Chicxulub crater following the impact could have spawned rich hydrothermal activity in the enclosed Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Sato et al. A gravity ...