The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ocean.

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth 66 million years ago may be the major reason some of the insect species learned to farm millions of years before humans even evolved.

Scientists discovered that the asteroid causing the mass extinction 66 million years ago came from a rare C-type asteroid beyond Jupiter, ruling out alternative origins like volcanic activity or comets.

A second impact crater from the same time period as the Chicxulub crater shows the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't working alone.

At the end of Cretaceous, dinosaurs did not do very well, but fungi experienced a heyday.” The asteroid impact filled the atmosphere with dust and debris, which blocked out t