This shaded relief image of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula show a
subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater.
Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the
Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that
marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of
life then on Earth.
Published Mar 7, 2003
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