This would be direct evidence confirming the famous theory and decades of hard work by scientists regarding the extinction of dinosaurs. Scientists never expected to find a direct witness to the impact of the asteroid.
A Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Leg Discovered in North Dakota Is Reportedly a doomsday relic for bird dinosaurs† The one where a huge asteroid crashed into Earth and ended their era. The fossil of thescelosaurus, a small herbivore, was found next to a fragment of the seven-mile-wide space rock believed to have killed it.
If the news terrifies everyone, we must withhold judgment. It’s not fully proven yet to all the experts that the dinosaur actually died on that fateful day, 66 million years ago. But everything seems to fit together like a puzzle with all the pieces available now.
Tanis excavation site in North Dakota
This place where the fossil was excavated would be absolutely exceptional† To a point that is difficult to formulate.
“We have so many details with this site that tell us what happened in each moment, it’s almost like watching a movie unfold† You look at the column of rock, you look at the fossils there, and it takes you back to that day.”
Robert DePalma, a University of Manchester graduate student who led the excavations.
“The temporary solution that we can reach on this site exceeds our wildest dreams… It really shouldn’t exist and it’s absolutely beautiful. I’ve never dreamed in all my career that I could watch something that a) is so limited in time; and b) so beautifully, and also tells such a wonderful story. †
Phillip Manning, professor of natural history at the University of Manchester.
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Manning said that the team had also discovered the remains of fish that had inhaled the impact debris of the asteroid, which occurred 3000 km away in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dinosaurs: The Final Day, a BBC documentary
All this should provide the very first physical proof that dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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The Tanis excavation site is the focus of a BBC documentary, Dinosaurs: The Final Day with Sir David Attenborough. Very few dinosaur remains have been found in the rocks, even thousands of years before the impact. So to discover a fossil on the day of the destruction itself would be extraordinary† The famous narrator and presenter of the documentary introduces the fossil, as ” an impossible fossil† †
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Source : life sciences
