I dimly remember when "an asteroid killed the dinosaurs" was one of several competing theories.
Now, for the first time, we have fossils of dinosaurs that were killed by the asteroid. How do we know?
They were found in a massive tangle with fish that had molten rock particles in their gills.
Also in the tangle...the leg (just the leg) of said dinosaur, a turtle skewered by wood, skin from a horned triceratops, a pterosaur egg...and a fragment of the impactor.
Holy...the violence of the impact, the sheer power of this disaster...the disaster which made us.
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