a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea

The hole made by that collision, in what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, has long since been buried in thick layers of sediment under the sea.

当今墨西哥南部的尤卡坦半岛中有当年撞击形成的洞，现早就被海底厚层沉淀物所掩埋。

Up to 420 whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) gathered off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, forming the world「s largest known assembly of this species.

多达420只鲸鲨(拉丁文rhincodontypus)在墨西哥的犹卡坦半岛海岸附近聚集，形成世界上已知的最大的该物种集会。

A huge crater off Mexico」s Yucatan Peninsula is dated to about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the extinction.

墨西哥的尤卡坦半岛的一个巨大火山口的产生日期可以追溯到约65万年前，这个时期正好与大规模的物种灭绝相一致。

Experts look to the 1979 Ixtoc blowout off Mexico「s Yucatan Peninsula for clues to how oil disperses and degrades in the Gulf.

专家们把眼光投入到1979年墨西哥尤卡坦半岛伊克·斯托克的大爆炸，希望找到线索，如何海湾是如何驱散和降解石油的。

We start with Karl and then, because Karl made a land fall a couple of hours ago on the Yucatan Peninsula as a very strong tropical storm.

我们先来看一下Karl，因为Karl几个小时前在尤卡坦半岛以热带风暴的形式登陆。

Inland from the tourist mecca of Cancun in Mexico」s Yucatan Peninsula is a sparsely populated tropical scrub forest that shelters the ruins of ancient Mayan cities.

位于墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的坎昆旅游圣地是一个人烟稀少的热带灌木丛林，古老的玛雅文明的遗迹就留存在那些避难所的废墟中。

However, recently, the material from the huge meteorite crashed in Mexico「s Yucatan Peninsula has shown that it is not the reason having led to the extinction of dinosaurs.

不过，不久前有材料显示，坠落在墨西哥尤卡坦半岛的巨大陨石并非导致恐龙灭绝的原因。

Scientists working off the Yucatan Peninsula are preparing to use sound waves to search for information about an asteroid that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

多国科学家组成的科研小组将对墨西哥尤卡坦半岛着名的「奇科苏卢布」陨石坑进行声波探测，而这个巨大的陨石坑可能就是6500万年前造成恐龙灭绝的根本原因。科学家们希望通过这一研究能找到当时彗星或小行星撞击地球的更多的有用信息。

Coastal flooding from heavy waves was also expected along the east coast of Mexico」s Yucatan Peninsula and the Bay Islands of Honduras.

大风浪导致的沿海洪水预计沿着墨西哥的犹卡坦半岛东海岸以及洪都拉斯的海湾岛。