Texas scientists probe crater they think led to dinosaur doomsday

June 8, 2016

Scientists think that 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid struck Earth near what is now the Gulf of Mexico, devastating the planet and wiping out the dominant form of life, the dinosaurs.

But what happened next?

University of Texas geophysics professor Sean Gulick has been spending significant chunks of the last two months on a makeshift rig 15 miles from the Mexican coast trying to answer that tricky question. Scientists have several strong hypotheses about the “dino doomsday” crater but surprisingly little hard evidence to prove specifics.

The Austin American-Statesman, May 27, 2016

Featuring: Sean Gulick, Research Professor, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences