66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

UC Berkeley News ^ | 3/29/19 | Robert Sanders

[LibWhacker]

Fascinating article about this here => https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died, but we can't post anything from the New Yorker. The long and short of it is they've found dinosaur remains of dinosaurs killed on "The Day" 66 million years ago.

[gleeaikin]

This is definitely a candidate for CATASTROPHISM ping list.

[dp0622]

I wonder what they said when they saw the tsunami approaching.

[43north]

This is absolutely fascinating! What an impressive bit of scientific detective work. But what will it mean to the LGBTQ movement? /do I really need the “s” tag?

[43north]

Really cool video at the site which shows its remote location. I wonder how Mr. DePalma knew where to look?

[Celtic Conservative]

Nothing i can post here.

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[TigersEye]

The article really brings to life (pun intended) how terrifying that day must have been. That is some climate change we ought to think about preventing from occurring again.

[Celtic Conservative]

Side note: the Yucatan peninsula is named after a mayan phrase. When the Spanish conquistadors asked the locals the name of this place, the locals replied “Yucatan”. So that’s what the Spaniards called it. What does Yucatan mean? It means “I can’t understand what you’re saying” in Mayan.

LOL

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[dp0622]

LOL!!

[abigkahuna]

Now imagine something on a bit smaller scale that brought the end of the Ice Age 12,800 years ago. Here in North American it wiped out nearly all mega fauna.

[LibWhacker]

It sounded like a bit of serendipity and a bit of hard-nosed detective work to me. If you like the human interest angle (I’m a sucker for it), check out The New Yorker article.

Still can’t find the video you’re talking about. I have so many ad blockers, script blockers and crap blockers on my desktop I never see everything on a website, lol.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin, a nice two-lister topic, and perfect for the GGG weekly Digest ping as well.

[SunkenCiv]

alas:

http://everythingcozumel.com/miscellenea/peninsula-history/yucatan-got-name/

[minnesota_bound]

I thought it was 65 million years ago?

[dp0622]

there are only 383 versions of how the name came about :)

I’ll narrow it down by the morning :)

[Celtic Conservative]

I like Cortez’ version. Calling it “cassava bread” is equally bizarre, though.

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[SunkenCiv]

I was 65 million years ago, but that was a million years ago.

[43north]

The video appears to have been made using s drone. It shows DePalma working on the side of a cliff and then pans out to show the desolate landscape he is working in.

[csvset]

Thanks for posting this. What a fascinating site that place must be.