Really cool video at the site which shows its remote location. I wonder how Mr. DePalma knew where to look?
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.
Really cool video at the site which shows its remote location. I wonder how Mr. DePalma knew where to look?
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A private collector told him about the site. The collector considered it worthless because the fossils would crumble when exposed to air.
DePalma’s undergraduate advisor many years ago told him to look for an ancient pond site close to the KT boundary. I guess DePalma put out the word in the local community. Even DePalma thought the site was worthless at first.
How Mr. De Palma found the site is in the New Yorker article.