Scientists Find Fossil Of Dinosaur Killed On Day Of Asteroid Strike Dinosaurs

The perfectly preserved leg, which even contains remnants of the animal’s skin, can be accurately dated from the time the asteroid that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction hit Earth 66 million years ago, experts say, due to the presence of debris. from the impact. it rained only shortly after. “It’s absolutely scary,” said Phillip Manning, a professor of natural history at the University of Manchester. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that the foot of the treasure discovered at the Tanis excavation site in North Dakota was the “ultimate dinosaur drum”. He said: “The time solution we can achieve at this location is beyond our wildest dreams. It really should not exist and it is absolutely amazingly beautiful. I have never dreamed in my entire career that I could look at something a) so limited in time. and b) so beautiful, and it also tells such a wonderful story. “ The excavation has been filmed for a BBC Dinosaurs documentary: The Final Day with Sir David Attenborough. during which the broadcaster will review the fossilized findings. “When Sir David Looked”[the leg], he smiled and said “this is an impossible fossil”. “And I agreed,” Manning said. He said the team also discovered the remains of fish that had been inhaled in impact debris from the asteroid impact, which occurred 1,864 miles (3,000 kilometers) away in the Gulf of Mexico. This and the presence of other debris that rained for a period of time immediately after the asteroid struck allowed them to date the site much more accurately than standard carbon dating techniques. Robert DePalma, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester who leads the Tanis excavation, said: You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there and it brings you back to that day. “ The BBC reported that the team also found the fossilized remains of a turtle skewered from a wooden stake and small mammals and their burrows, as well as skin from a triceratops, a pterosaur embryo in its egg and what scientists believe will could be a fragment of the percussion asteroid itself.

title: “Scientists Find Fossil Of Dinosaur Killed On Day Of Asteroid Strike Dinosaurs " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-05” author: “Barbara Lovato”

The perfectly preserved leg, which even contains remnants of the animal’s skin, can be accurately dated from the time the asteroid that caused the dinosaurs’ extinction hit Earth 66 million years ago, experts say, due to the presence of debris. from the impact. it rained only shortly after. “It’s absolutely scary,” said Phillip Manning, a professor of natural history at the University of Manchester. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that the foot of the treasure discovered at the Tanis excavation site in North Dakota was the “ultimate dinosaur drum”. He said: “The time solution we can achieve at this location is beyond our wildest dreams. It really should not exist and it is absolutely amazingly beautiful. I have never dreamed in my entire career that I could look at something a) so limited in time. and b) so beautiful, and it also tells such a wonderful story. “ The excavation has been filmed for a BBC Dinosaurs documentary: The Final Day with Sir David Attenborough. during which the broadcaster will review the fossilized findings. “When Sir David Looked”[the leg], he smiled and said “this is an impossible fossil”. “And I agreed,” Manning said. He said the team also discovered the remains of fish that had been inhaled in impact debris from the asteroid impact, which occurred 1,864 miles (3,000 kilometers) away in the Gulf of Mexico. This and the presence of other debris that rained for a period of time immediately after the asteroid struck allowed them to date the site much more accurately than standard carbon dating techniques. Robert DePalma, a postgraduate student at the University of Manchester who leads the Tanis excavation, said: You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there and it brings you back to that day. “ The BBC reported that the team also found the fossilized remains of a turtle skewered from a wooden stake and small mammals and their burrows, as well as skin from a triceratops, a pterosaur embryo in its egg and what scientists believe will could be a fragment of the percussion asteroid itself.