Perfectly preserved dinosaur bone found in North Dakota reported rest of the apocalypse for bird dinosaurs. The place where a huge asteroid hit the earth, ending their era. Fossils of thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, were found next to an 11-kilometer-wide shard of space rock that appears to have killed it.
If the news makes everyone jump on the spot, we have to withhold judgment. It’s not fully proven yet to all experts that Dinosaurs actually died on that fateful day, 66 million years ago. But they all seem to fit together like a puzzle with all the pieces available now.
Tanis Cemetery in North Dakota
The site where the fossil was excavated would be truly magnificent. To a point that is difficult to define.
“We have so many details with this site that it tells us what’s going on every time, it’s almost like watching an opened movie. You see the rock column, you see the fossil there, and it takes you back to those days.”
Robert DePalma, a University of Manchester graduate student who led the excavation.
“A temporary resolution we can reach this site is beyond our wildest dreams… It shouldn’t exist and it’s really beautiful. I never in my career dreamed that I could watch something a) so limited in time; and b) so beautiful, and also tells such a beautiful story. »
Phillip Manning, Professor of Natural History at the University of Manchester.
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Manning said it the team also found the remains of fish inhaled into the impact litter from the asteroid, which occurred 3,000 km away in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dinosaurs: The Last Day, a BBC documentary
All this must provide first physical evidence that the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous.
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Tanis’ poetry website was the focus of the BBC documentary Dinosaur: The Final Day starring Sir David Attenborough. Very few dinosaur remains have been found in rocks, even thousands of years before the impact. Because of that finding fossils from the day of the destruction itself would be awesome. The famous narrator and presenter of the documentary introduces the fossil, as “ impossible fossil. »
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Source: Life Science
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