Posted on 04/07/2022 7:40:41 AM PDT by dennisw
Scientists find fossil from THE DAY the dinosaurs died 66m years ago: Leg of Thescelosaurus was 'ripped off in aftermath' of huge asteroid strike that wiped out most species on Earth Dinosaurs were wiped out by the Chicxulub event - a plummeting asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago
The asteroid more than six miles in diameter slammed into what is now Mexico, leaving a 93-mile wide crater Experts found the fossilised leg of a dinosaur killed and what appears to be a fragment of the asteroid itself
Findings were made at Tanis, a renowned paleontological site in North Dakota that formed at time of impact A new BBC documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough will reveal several of the new findings at Tanis
A fossilized leg of a dinosaur that died on the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago has been unearthed alongside a fragment of the space rock that killed it, experts say.
The leg fossil, found at the Tanis site in North Dakota, belonged to a Thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, and is likely to have been ripped off after the asteroid hit and caused a flash flood.
Palaeontologists say it's the first dinosaur victim from the famous asteroid strike – which left a 93-mile-wide impact crater in what is today the Gulf of Mexico – that has ever been discovered.
The creature was 'buried on the day of impact', they claim. They also think they've unearthed a tiny fragment from the asteroid, which totaled more than six miles in diameter
The remarkable discoveries were made by University of Manchester palaeontologist Robert DePalma at a famous dig site called Tanis in North Dakota, discovered in 2008 and nicknamed 'the dinosaur graveyard'.
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Yes, I was one of the floaters he saw.
Tis but a scratch.
Uh huh.
Weird. Doesn’t look like oil to me.
Yup, very obvious that round indentation was an asteroid pockmark. At least these guys were smart enough not to claim they knew what dino had for lunch on that fateful day 66 million years ago.
Only if it has a stamp of approval from science itself. Yup. Fauxnocchio seal required.
And ants used to be REALLY BIG back then.
I saw it in a movie once
That headline alone has more presuppositions in it than a Shif impeachment hearing.
RIPPED OFF IN A FLOOD...then buried.
My skepticism is in good company here, I see.
“The leg fossil, found at the Tanis site in North Dakota, belonged to a Thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, and is likely to have been ripped off after the asteroid hit and caused a flash flood.”
I’m having trouble picturing a flood ripping a leg out of an animal.
“Next”
“OK, I’ll take a leg of lamb........ no wait, on second thought we are having guests over for dinner, so make that a Leg of Thescelosaurus please”
“Beloc’s staff is too long.”
That’s what Marion Ravenwood said!
Fake...but accurate.
It’s more like a TRex had just cbomped down on this poor critter and a leg fell out of it’s mouth.
It looks like these new dinosaurs are getting a big Freeper down vote.
Why do scientists discredit all the smart stuff they do with idiotic crap like this?
“This looks like an animal whose leg has simply been ripped off really quickly. There’s no evidence on the leg of disease, there are no obvious pathologies, there’s no trace of the leg being scavenged, such as bite marks or bits of it that are missing.” Of course they were also able to
pull apart the chemistry and identify the composition of that material.
So it is possible the impact only exhumed deaths that had occurred years earlier and there may be other species at the site that are not as circumstantial (the fish) but it should be an interesting presentation of the evidence regardless.
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