Tanis: 'First dinosaur fossil linked to asteroid strike'

Yahoo-BBC Science ^ | 4-6-2022 | Jonathan Amos

[ApplegateRanch]

The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota.

But it's not just their exquisite condition that's turning heads - it's what these ancient specimens purport to represent.

The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.

The day 66 million years ago when the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.

The BBC has spent three years filming at Tanis for a show to be broadcast on 15 April, narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting to see how they play their find.

It could be true (a fossil killed that day), but it could also be “impressively subjective conjecture” ....

[Adder]

Gee, I wonder what time of day it happened...

[ApplegateRanch]

Yes, it could be "impressively subjective conjecture”, but they seem to have several lines of evidence.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The dinosaur’s final expression at the moment of its death could best be described as “holy sh...”.

[maddog55]

I don’t believe anything coming out of the scientific community anymore.

[libertylover]

The pterosaur egg with a pterosaur baby inside is super-rare.

Wait. I thought science says that would be a tissue blob.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Don’t know what time of day but it happened in the spring.

[NWFree]

They never would have fit on the ark anyway 🤪

[Verginius Rufus]

The pterosaur egg with a pterosaur baby inside is super-rare.

A pterosaur egg with the baby of any other species of dinosaur inside is even rarer.

[BrandtMichaels]

Right, like how would they know if it was the 1st dinosaur?! /s

[DennisR]

How big was this giant asteroid that destroyed all of the dinosaurs? What an imagination. 🙄

[moovova]

There were dinosaurs on the asteroid?

[Secret Agent Man]

I think Gary Larson had an image of the event.

“UMM, Check please...”

[Paal Gulli]

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/40-million-years-before-the-asteroid-hit-dinosaurs-were-already-on-the-decline/

Chicxulub just finished what nature already had started.

[clearcarbon]

"The dinosaur’s final expression at the moment of its death could best be described as “holy sh...”

...probably received its first social security check on the very same day.

[PIF]

Chicxulub was 10 km in diameter. It was also one of 3 that hit around the same period, each one many kms in diameter.

[SunkenCiv]

Tasted like chicken.

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[SunkenCiv]

Dead wrong. Chicxulub wiped them out, plain and simple. The idea that the dinos were "in decline" for 40 million years is ludicrous on its face.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

Whenever I read a claim like this one, I can’t rid my mind of “Piltdown Man.” The desire to “be someone,” if just for a moment, might be too much of a lure for some members of our species. But that never happens does it?

Kinda like men cheating to beat women. We know that such low dignity people just don’t exist, don’t we?