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The fossilised leg (pictured) once belonging to a dinosaur known as Thescelosaurus was likely ripped off in a flood, according to researchers
Posted on 04/07/2022 7:40:41 AM PDT by dennisw
Scientists find fossil from THE DAY the dinosaurs died 66m years ago: Leg of Thescelosaurus was 'ripped off in aftermath' of huge asteroid strike that wiped out most species on Earth Dinosaurs were wiped out by the Chicxulub event - a plummeting asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago
The asteroid more than six miles in diameter slammed into what is now Mexico, leaving a 93-mile wide crater Experts found the fossilised leg of a dinosaur killed and what appears to be a fragment of the asteroid itself
Findings were made at Tanis, a renowned paleontological site in North Dakota that formed at time of impact A new BBC documentary presented by Sir David Attenborough will reveal several of the new findings at Tanis
A fossilized leg of a dinosaur that died on the day the Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago has been unearthed alongside a fragment of the space rock that killed it, experts say.
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.
Palaeontologists say it's the first dinosaur victim from the famous asteroid strike – which left a 93-mile-wide impact crater in what is today the Gulf of Mexico – that has ever been discovered.
The creature was 'buried on the day of impact', they claim. They also think they've unearthed a tiny fragment from the asteroid, which totaled more than six miles in diameter
The remarkable discoveries were made by University of Manchester palaeontologist Robert DePalma at a famous dig site called Tanis in North Dakota, discovered in 2008 and nicknamed 'the dinosaur graveyard'.
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The fossilised leg (pictured) once belonging to a dinosaur known as Thescelosaurus was likely ripped off in a flood, according to researchers
Interesting, but very speculative.
Pure science fiction. Leg could have been ripped off for any number of reasons, and at any time hundreds (thousands?) of years prior to the comet. It’s not like they were all standing around holding hands and singing songs with Barney.
Worst Tuesday morning ever.
Believe the science. This speculation can not be questioned. It is fact now.
These people never shy away from making outlandish claims based on flimsy evidence.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
—Mark Twain, in Life on the Mississippi
It is amazing how they create imaginative stories.
Were you with Brian Williams??
You can even see one of its balls hanging down - amazing
The ants carried off the leg. Just ants doing what ants do.
Has Biden claimed he was there yet?
Beloc’s staff is too long. They’re digging in the wrong place.
Dude, where’s my leg?
It’s about as much “proof” as finding a single tooth fragment and creating a whole new creature (Yes, they did that to - Science, don’t you know).
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