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Started by rcjordan, April 01, 2019, 02:21:16 PM

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rcjordan

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

littleman

I am kind of a sucker for paleontology.  I really would like to some day get a chunck of the k-t boundary.

rcjordan

>paleontology

I'm not a dinosaur nut and fossils are kinda boring, but I like the mystery-solving. 

buckworks

>> 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."

grnidone

Big hat tip to the University of Kansas for their role in this!

rcjordan

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

rcjordan