Scientists revealed that the Chicxulub impact crater may have prospered a vast and long-lived hydrothermal system after the catastrophic impact that wiped out dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impact crater is the best-preserved large impact structure on Earth and has remained an attraction for several impact-related research for decades. Scientists observed that subsurface rivers of water were heated and pushed upwards towards the boundary between the floor of the impact crater and the bottom of the Yucatán sea. Scientists believe their study sheds light on the additional evidence for the impact-origin of life hypothesis.