Published on: 2025-05-04 22:40:30
Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid between six and ten miles (10 to 15 kilometers) wide slammed into what is now the Gulf of Mexico, leaving behind a massive 90-mile-wide (150 kilometers) crater. The impact killed all non-avian dinosaurs and decimated marine creatures—but may have also boosted life in a peculiar way. A team of international researchers suggests that the asteroid impact created a hydrothermal system within the Chicxulub crater, as it’s officially known, which may have nurt
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