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Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com)
"It's like a time capsule of the end of the world," reports USA Today:
66 million years ago, in what's now North Dakota, a group of animals died together, only a few minutes after a huge asteroid smashed into the Earth near present-day Mexico. Scientists Friday announced the discovery of the jumbled, fossilized remains of the animals, all killed when a tsunami-like wave and a torrent of rocks, sand and glass buried them alive.
This graveyard of fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur is a unique, first-of-its-kind discovery from the exact day that life on Earth changed forever, according to the study lead author Robert DePalma, a curator at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History... DePalma added that the find provides spectacular new detail to what is perhaps the most important event to ever affect life on Earth... The asteroid impact and resulting mass extinction, which scientists call the K-T boundary, marked the end of the Cretaceous Era. The aftereffects of that infamous asteroid collision killed 75 percent of all species on Earth, including the dinosaurs. It's the planet's most recent mass extinction.
Scientists believe the asteroid was 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) wide, the BBC reports, and that it "hurled billions of tonnes of molten and vaporised rock into the sky in all directions - and across thousands of kilometres." DePalma argues that moment "is tied directly to all of us -- to every mammal on Earth, in fact. Because this is essentially where we inherited the planet.
"Nothing was the same after that impact. It became a planet of mammals rather than a planet of dinosaurs."
This graveyard of fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur is a unique, first-of-its-kind discovery from the exact day that life on Earth changed forever, according to the study lead author Robert DePalma, a curator at the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History... DePalma added that the find provides spectacular new detail to what is perhaps the most important event to ever affect life on Earth... The asteroid impact and resulting mass extinction, which scientists call the K-T boundary, marked the end of the Cretaceous Era. The aftereffects of that infamous asteroid collision killed 75 percent of all species on Earth, including the dinosaurs. It's the planet's most recent mass extinction.
Scientists believe the asteroid was 12 kilometers (7.4 miles) wide, the BBC reports, and that it "hurled billions of tonnes of molten and vaporised rock into the sky in all directions - and across thousands of kilometres." DePalma argues that moment "is tied directly to all of us -- to every mammal on Earth, in fact. Because this is essentially where we inherited the planet.
"Nothing was the same after that impact. It became a planet of mammals rather than a planet of dinosaurs."
Aren't we in the middle of a current mass extinction event? Only 12 more years to go.
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
Despite any amount of scientific evidence presented and vetted, even if it's by the entire scientific community, the Fundamentalist Christians, Dominionists, and other religious types will claim it's all faked, that science is evil, they're all trying to sway the faithful from God to Satan, and so on, and so forth.
This is the era we're living in right now: The Age of Anti-Information. The stupid people are getting stupider, and when you challenge their non-truths and delusions, they get violent, vote for people like Trump, and generally start fucking up everything they can get their hands on. They have to be stopped before they do any more damage. Real Truth, Real Facts, that's the future mankind should have. Their way is like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
We still have avian dinosaurs - I have one trying to take apart the thermostat on the wall as I write this. Some of them are pretty smart.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" -- HST