
The Why Files
Why The Dinosaurs Died | The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact
2020 • E8 Dec 13, 2020 11m
One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs