Scientists hail the site as the world’s first definitive link between the asteroid crash and the death of dinosaurs
A team of paleontologists from Texas has discovered a treasure trove of fossilized remains of prehistoric creatures that died minutes after an enormous asteroid plunged into Earth millions of years ago.
Some of the fish fossils within the horde were found to have inhaled “ejecta” from the cosmic explosion, connecting the trove with the Chicxulub crater — buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico — created by the impact of the asteroid. The upheaval left a “tangled mass of freshwater fish, terrestrial vertebrates, trees, branches, logs, marine ammonites and other marine creatures,” said DePalma Tektites — tiny spheres of clay and glass — were also found within the fossil bed, from the impact.
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