The discovery is likely to reignite controversy over the US site where the fossils were found.
. They said Tanis captured what happened just minutes to hours after the asteroid struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula about 66 million years ago.
DePalma says that an upcoming study will expand on the description of the site given in 2019. He also acknowledges there is a “misconception” that he is restricting access to the site, but he insists this is not the case. “In fact, the access has been more open than is typical practice,” he says. During says the findings could offer clues about why the impact-triggered extinction wiped out some animals, including all non-avian dinosaurs, but not others.She speculates that the impact’s timing might have been devastating for species in the Northern Hemisphere that had young to care for. There is also some evidence that Southern Hemisphere ecosystems recovered twice as fast after the extinction, write the researchers.
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