The Chicxulub crater, located on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, provides compelling evidence of an impact event linked to the mass extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. This approximately 150-kilometer-wide crater is associated with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, where a significant decline in biodiversity, including the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, occurred. Geological and geochemical evidence, such as the presence of iridium, supports the idea that this impact triggered dramatic environmental changes.
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