Chicxulub impact effects fossilized?

[DavidBrown]

A new scientific paper describes a fossil site that may have captured the immediate effect of the meteor impact that killed the dinosaurs and most life on the planet 66 million years ago.

Trees, fish, mollusks, and other species are jumbled together in a mass suggesting they all died together instantly in a single event. The site has traces of iridium and tektites, indicative of the meteor impact. Many of the fish have tektites clogging their gills.

Fossil Site Reveals Day That Meteor Hit Earth and, Maybe, Wiped Out Dinosaurs

 

[Anniella]

I guess we'll see what comes of this. DePalma also claims to have found a large piece of ceratopsian skin, as well as a large feather that he said fits with the quill knobs of a Dakotaraptor. I think it's far from definitely the feather of a Dakotaraptor, however, as there are other, fairly large coelurosaurs from Hell Creek that also likely had large feathers on all or parts of their body, like Anzu wyliei and ornithomimids or even tyrannosaurids or some large, mysterious, Cretaceous birds.

 

[Zooplantman]

This is an absolutely fascinating discovery