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Many in the popular press have reported this, including a Fox News report posted here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3738988/posts

The best popular press account comes from the New Yorker that can be found here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

For those who want to read the scientific paper, this is the place to go. It is long and detailed but most of it is easily understood by amateurs and those interested in paleontology.

The principle researcher, Robert DePalma is making quite a stir and the long knives in the bone digger crowd are out in full cry. You see, he doesn't have his PhD yet and he doesn't have the proper appointment in an accepted research center. In other words, he is an outsider. If fact he has been to known to have sold some of his finds and of course, this find, is potentially the biggest in the history of the discipline has a few upset. The cat fights have just begun.

1 posted on 04/04/2019 8:16:25 AM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

With news like this, we can all take tomorrow off.


2 posted on 04/04/2019 8:18:00 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping.

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3 posted on 04/04/2019 8:21:45 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: centurion316

Well, duh!........................


4 posted on 04/04/2019 8:23:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: centurion316
Chicxulub, the Dinosaur’s End, Op 127
5 posted on 04/04/2019 8:31:22 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: centurion316

I notice there is no mention of dinosaurs in this article so it may be better received.

That’s an issue because there is very little evidence for dinosaurs within 100,000 years of the asteroid impact time.


6 posted on 04/04/2019 8:36:50 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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To: centurion316

Reading this gives me insight to where Frank Herbert got his naming ideas for Dune...


7 posted on 04/04/2019 8:39:34 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: centurion316

If only they had signed the Paris Climate Accords, it wouldn’t have happened . . .


16 posted on 04/04/2019 1:33:50 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: centurion316

very interesting New Yorker article as you point out


17 posted on 04/04/2019 1:41:55 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: centurion316
"magnitude Mw ∼10 to 11 earthquake...." Yeah, that would tend to ruin your day. And a lot of others too. (A lot of other people, and a lot of other days!).
18 posted on 04/04/2019 3:22:44 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: centurion316; SunkenCiv; BenLurkin; blam; Red Badger; All

For those who like pictures or have grandchildren interested in this kind of thing, the link below has some nice graphics.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/03/29/66-million-year-old-deathbed-linked-to-dinosaur-killing-meteor/


20 posted on 04/04/2019 10:42:46 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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" the long knives in the bone digger crowd are out in full cry."

Ah, the politics of science, all emotional...no factual science...remind you of anything?

23 posted on 04/12/2019 11:07:03 AM PDT by yoe
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To: centurion316

“in Kuthuu’s name....”


24 posted on 04/12/2019 11:08:52 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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