Introductory article:
Scientists uncover fossils from moments after Earth's apocalyptic
asteroid collision - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-uncover-fossils-from-moments-after-earths-apocalyptic-asteroid-collision/
Loooong, but worth it.
The Day the Dinosaurs Died | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died
I am kind of a sucker for paleontology. I really would like to some day get a chunck of the k-t boundary.
>paleontology
I'm not a dinosaur nut and fossils are kinda boring, but I like the mystery-solving.
>> dinosaur nut
Our just-turned-four grandson Joel is a dinosaur nut. He amazes me with how much he knows about them.
My husband was recently reading him a story about dinosaurs and he tripped over a multi-syllable name.
"That's a hard name, " he said.
Joel replied solemnly, "They all are. But you can get it if you practice."
Big hat tip to the University of Kansas for their role in this!
About 20-25 years ago, paleontologists and the media openly mocked a fellow US paleontologist who presented the evidence that birds' skulls and nasal passages had evolved from dinosaurs. That really caught my interest. I can't find a reference to the guy who took the beating on this.
"Recently, fossils of early birds and their most immediate predecessors have been collected at an unprecedented rate from Mesozoic-aged rocks worldwide. This wealth of new fossils has settled the century-old controversy of the origin of birds. Today, we can safely declare that birds evolved from a group of dinosaurs"
Birds: The Late Evolution of Dinosaurs | Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
https://nhm.org/site/research-collections/dinosaur-institute/dinosaurs/birds-late-evolution-dinosaurs
Scientists find fossil of dinosaur 'killed on day of asteroid strike' | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/07/fossil-dinosaur-killed-asteroid-strike-thescelosaurus-north-dakota-extinction