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.
With news like this, we can all take tomorrow off.
Ping.
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Well, duh!........................
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.
Reading this gives me insight to where Frank Herbert got his naming ideas for Dune...
If only they had signed the Paris Climate Accords, it wouldn’t have happened . . .
very interesting New Yorker article as you point out
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/
Ah, the politics of science, all emotional...no factual science...remind you of anything?
“in Kuthuu’s name....”