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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."
We DESTROYED JEWISH dinosaurs much as we will DESTROY YOU.
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All I can do is shrug. Next week/year, "the scientists" will say something that contradicts this. And then it's another shrug. It's just an endless loop of guesses. How can they know of any of this? Why should I believe any news from the same source that denies the ongoing genocide of Aryans world-wide, while constantly pushing bullshit about "global warming" and other such nonsense?
I'm sorry, a tsunami of rock and sand reached from Chicxulub to the hellhole of North Dakota? That sounds rather, well, unlikely.
Oprah?
Tom Cruise?
Harry Styles?
Thats the real news to this story
How can they be sure the fossils weren't made before it died?
other than the Holocene extinction we're currently causing.
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.
Just finding amber-preserved tektites is a huge deal (meaning their chemical signature would be basically the same as it was during the event -- something never before encountered). If there actually are non-reworked dinosaur bones in close proximity to / at the K-T boundary, it would unequivocally prove that the dinosaurs survived all the way up to the asteroid impact, which has been the subject of some debate. DePalma is taking a lot of flak for doing some Barnum-type hyping of the find, and for maintaining extreme secrecy about the location of the site -- as well as for letting journalists release some details that are apparently not included in the peer-reviewed paper (e.g., the existence of said dino bones). But if even part of what is says he has found is true, then it is a truly historic find which will represent a quantum leap in our understanding of the bolide impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and even shed a lot of light for what to expect about similar impacts in the future. Personally, I think that (in addition to his showmanship and relative lack of transparency so far) a lot of the blowback is coming from folks at bigger institutions who are a bit miffed that this find was produced not by their ranks but by a younger, non-Ph.D. paleontologist playing somewhat by his own rules. But big scientific claims require lots of scrutiny, and eventually proof. Let's hope now that the word is out, he eventually puts it all out there for the scientific community to assess.
A planet of mammals? No, a planet of the Lizard People!
Be sure to vote for the right one next year.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
This is actually not just any mass-extinction, but by now aleready the biggest that ever happened.
Not counting the inevitable result of the event's inertia, even if we stop and turn around right now.
If you look at the number species that died out, we already surpassed the one back then. An I me "we" as in: We humans managed to do that.
Although, to be fair, the only reason we're not number 2, is that as far as we know, there simply weren't so many species back then, when the trees literally flipped earth's atmosphere, and then proceeded to stack up since there was nothing alive that could digest the wood.
Hope's still not out though. I know enough organizations and people who might proudly still get us there.
... the smallest physically possible leap. ;)
(I get you, of course. I just wish there was a better way of saying it.)
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.
This is not exactly particle physics. :)
(Hello dear Mathematicians! Yes, you can call us, when you solved the GÃdel incompleteness theorem problem and put your base axioms on a basis of observed reality. Until then, please stay with philosophy and religion over there in the corner, next to the bowl of nuts.)
regards
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
LMAO "Washington Post when Democracy dies in darkness" is THEIR logo? Please: The USA wasn't founded as a pure democracy (instead a modified Representative REPUBLIC)
WHY?
To offset what GREEKS found as a MAJOR FLAW IN THEIR SYSTEM of Gov't./Vote:
Major "POLIS"es (cities/population centers) would DECIDE VOTES alone!
Thus - so balanced representation, via the Electoral College, was built into OUR form of gov't (republic) to OFFSET that GIANT MISTAKE).
* Do you "SOROS LOSERS" really THINK you can b.s. us & give YOUR "sources" (FAKE FUCKING NEWS) any credence? Please...
ONLY 'EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT' HAPPENING NOW, IS TO YOU & YOURS...
(Best part is, you KILL YOURSELVES, lol!)
APK
P.S.=> YOU & "your kind" (HIDING "antifa style" behind the mask of UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS posts etc.)? Make us all laugh - bigtime (1/2 truth OR PURE FALSEHOOD deceit artists, nothing more)... apk
Could it have been the original Ash Wednesday?
Washington Post = owned by GLOBALIST Bezos https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... - THAT "explain anything" to you?
* DOES ME...
APK
P.S.=> By the way - I agree w/ you per my statement to the WEEZIL you also replied to, here https://science.slashdot.org/c... ... apk
Depending on how you count, we're at 60-90% of all species and growing, currently.
How big was it when it entered the atmosphere? How quickly would it burn? How big was the atmosphere back then?
have always been much less than the proof for new theories. Just tried and gather the proof that environmental changes kill the dinosaurs and see what you find.
Are these the same "scientists" who tell us global warming is real or that evolution is real or that fat/salt/water/etc cause and cure cancer at the same time? There is in fact NO evidences ever found in a reputable source to show that the earth is more than about 4000 years old.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
Sound of Silence
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
There's no evidence any religious person knows what time is.
"Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Royal Astronomical Society Associate[1] (French: [ lm:t] (About this soundlisten); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2] He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble-Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the creation of the universe, originally calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".[12]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître
Pretty pathetic, how you value right wing fake news organizations over real ones. You know, like the Washington Post. While the WaPo might get the odd story wrong, they correct the inaccuracies.
Meanwhile Fox just endlessly doubles down on the lies like their orange God does.
Sad too, that you keep defending your orange God. Could it be that you are in the thrall of a false prophet? Nah!
Surely, a major contributing factor to to the extinction of Dinosaurs is a gravitational event, gravity increased, possibly over time. This increase in gravity means that the larger lifeforms can no longer sustain their own weight and die off. The smaller lifeforms continue to exist and evolve.
Was the gravitation event caused by an impact? maybe a collision with a large object would most certainly alter our trajectory and spin.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
Something touched me deep inside
The day the dinosaurs died
I was there that day. It was a nice day and the last dinosaur happened to step into my pit that I made. It was a good fall. Very tasty.
Oh wait,mankind wasn't around back then. Well, no problem for this generation as all they do is make outrageous claims.
It did not become a planet of mammals. For the next 10 million years, it became the planet of very large birds. Eventually, the mammals grew in size, and began to displace most of the large birds.
Wow, I've lived most of my life only a few miles from Wellington, FL and I never heard of the Palm Beach Museum of Natural History. I'll have to check it out!
Of all the news outlets that covered this story this weekend ... USA Today? Really?
https://www.newyorker.com/maga...
I mean, "we vastly overestimate the damage..." kind of comments.
The asteroid effectively ended the reign of the dinosaurs, worldwide. Yeah they were in decline already, but who cares? Would you have wanted to be around when a 12 km asteroid hits? We got all excited when an asteroid a few tens of metres entered the atmosphere over Russia.
Such comments seem to be designed to say, "hey, birds survived. Crocodilians survived. Mammals survived." OK, but is just "surviving" what you want out of life? Hard-core Darwinists would say that's enough but not me. I'll take living without surviving a 12 km asteroid hit if you don't mind. I don't need to eat carrion, rotten vegetables and drink dirty water for a year just to make it through.
As Phil Plait said, "it was a really bad day".
check out tfa, if only for one picture; :)
you'll see DePalma's assistant wearing a Jurasic Park t-shirt, how cool is that
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died -- is that like The Day Time Ended?
I think its amazing how they found it because itâ(TM)s been there for so many years well done but sad about the Astroid ðY'-ðY'-ðY®ðY®ðYOEðYOE
I wish that journalists would be expected to know at least a high-school level of science before being detailed to write about scientific discoveries. The K-T boundary does not mark "the end of the Cretacious Era", because there is no such thing. The K-T boundary marks the end of the Cretaceous Period, and also the end of the Mesozoic Era.