Dinosaur fossils suggest speedy extinction - Arctic find challenges the idea that the massive...

Nature News ^ | 19 January 2009 | Matt Kaplan

[TXnMA]

"There were also fossilized tree trunks two meters away."

Horizontally or vertically?

To quote Flip Wilson: "It do make a diff'rence!" '-)

[Fred Nerks]

“...Geologists have discovered the remains of three ancient deciduous Antarctic forests, complete with fossils of fallen leaves scattered around the tree trunks.

The clusters of petrified tree stumps were found upright in the original living positions they held during the Permian period.

Some stumps were even poking through the snowfield in the Beardmore Glacier area, said U.S. geologist Professor Molly Miller of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

“These were not scrubby little things,” Miller said. “These were big trees.”

Some are estimated to be as tall as 24.6 meters, based on their trunk diameter...”

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_1239175.htm

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[colorado tanker]

A picture of Victoria Vetri mixing with dinosaurs would be easier on the eyes. :-))

[aruanan]

65-68 million years ago is not sudden

They didn't say the extinction took place over 3 million years. They said the fossil beds were dated at between 65 and 68 millions years ago.