Relatively unknown global weather patterns can drive the hurricane season. What are the ITCZ, Central American Gyre and the ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

From Mayan gods to dinosaur-killing asteroids, these are the lesser-known and crazy facts about cenotes you haven't heard ...

Ben Garrod and Alice Roberts investigate the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet – the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Experts suspect that the dinosaurs ...

The Chicxulub crater, located off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, is one of the most significant geological sites on Earth. It marks the catastrophic impact of a massive asteroid or ...

The colossal impact event, which triggered a mass extinction event over much of Earth's land and ocean environments, also filled the present-day Gulf of Mexico with nutrients for at least 700,000 ...

In 2016, a scientific drilling expedition to the Gulf of Mexico extracted approximately 2,720 feet (829 meters) of core from the ancient crater.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

Google said it will change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and North America’s tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive orders. (Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters) ...

The Gulf of Mexico once stretched into Arkansas, its waves lapping at Hope and Little Rock. But that was about 50 million years ago, long before anyone thought of renaming it the Gulf of America.