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 impact, for example, caused a shift in climate on a much smaller timescale of less than 25 years. But it was so extreme that it triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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

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

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 ...

"But these events happened millennia before the meteorite impact and probably played only a small part in the extinction of ...

One is about 100 microns in size (Natalie Cheng / Bridget Wade) She noted that research into the Yucatan asteroid strike, also known as the Chicxulub impact crater, suggests a shift during less ...

Even before the devastating asteroid named "Chicxulub" after its impact site off the coast of Mexico, dinosaurs and co. lived ...