Don't Look Up, You Dinosaurs

The Tanis dig in North Dakota, USA actually captures the event, that resulted in most dinosaurs becoming extinct (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/07/fossil-dinosaur-killed-asteroid-strike-thescelosaurus-north-dakota-extinction). It's accepted that dinosaurs were part of a mass extinction event, caused by an asteroid strike, 66 million years ago. The Tanis site is 3000 km away from the strike location, in the Gulf of Mexico. There are many fossils of potential victims at the Tanis site. The most interesting, however, is the prefectly preserved hind-limb of a plant-eating Scelosaurus. That fossil, which actually includes the skin, appears to have been ripped off by the tidal wave, created by the distant asteroid strike. The rocks around it also include debris (tiny glass-like particles, as well as a possible small fragment of the asteroid itself) that would have 'rained down', only in the immediate aftermath of the strike. The debris allows scientists to give the fossil a very precise date. Naturally, a David Attenborough programme devoted to the Tanis dig, will be shown on the BBC, later this month. This could be said to somewhat upstage Netflix?