(Many photos!) Scientists find fossil from THE DAY the dinosaurs died 66m years ago: Leg of Thescelosaurus was 'ripped off in aftermath' of huge asteroid strike

FOR MAILONLINE ^ | 7 April 2022 | SOPHIE CURTIS and JONATHAN CHADWICK

[ConservativeInPA]

Were you with Brian Williams??

Yes, I was one of the floaters he saw.

[Flag_This]

Tis but a scratch.

[cyclotic]

Uh huh.

[rktman]

Weird. Doesn’t look like oil to me.

[BiglyCommentary]

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.

[rktman]

Only if it has a stamp of approval from science itself. Yup. Fauxnocchio seal required.

[Mr. K]

And ants used to be REALLY BIG back then.

I saw it in a movie once

[lurk]

That headline alone has more presuppositions in it than a Shif impeachment hearing.

[mdmathis6]

RIPPED OFF IN A FLOOD...then buried.

[FoxInSocks]

My skepticism is in good company here, I see.

[Paladin2]

[aquila48]

“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.

[Bob434]

“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”

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Beloc’s staff is too long.”

That’s what Marion Ravenwood said!

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Fake...but accurate.

[BigEdLB]

”The T. rex ate our lawyer, so maybe they aren’t all bad”. - Al Yankovich

[BiglyCommentary]

It’s more like a TRex had just cbomped down on this poor critter and a leg fell out of it’s mouth.

[dennisw]

It looks like these new dinosaurs are getting a big Freeper down vote.

[Delta 21]

Why do scientists discredit all the smart stuff they do with idiotic crap like this?

[erlayman]

“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.