“In the case of Chicxulub, this process played a vital role in the rapid recovery of marine ecosystems.” SEE ALSO: NASA dropped a new report. It's a wake-up call. The research was published ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a city-sized asteroid slammed into Earth near today’s Yucatán Peninsula, blasting out a huge crater named Chicxulub and unleashing chaos across the planet. Firestorms ...