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“Any Cretaceous mammal burrow is incredibly rare,” he said. “But this one is impossible—it’s dug right through the KT boundary.”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

An amazing, if somewhat luridly written, account of one of the most important discoveries I've ever heard of -- a fossil record of the actual K-T impact event. Wowza. I need to make a note to look this information up in slightly more rigorous sources.

Date: 2019-03-31 02:02 am (UTC)
bikergeek: cartoon bald guy with a half-smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
That was fascinating reading! Thank you!

Date: 2019-03-31 02:32 am (UTC)
bikergeek: (gomez and morticia)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
I would so want to go through the next extinction event with you, holding your hand as we gaze upon the instrument of our ultimate doom becoming brighter and brighter by the moment, blazing like our love for each other.

Date: 2019-03-31 02:59 am (UTC)
bikergeek: (gomez addams)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
*sigh* How about dinner and a movie instead, then?

Date: 2019-03-31 03:07 am (UTC)
bikergeek: cartoon bald guy with a half-smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
Also, to be honest, I expected that gothy purple prose to elicit howls of laughter....

Date: 2019-03-31 03:29 am (UTC)
bikergeek: cartoon bald guy with a half-smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
Is *that* what that was?

Date: 2019-03-31 03:37 am (UTC)
bikergeek: cartoon bald guy with a half-smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
I thought it was a pair of very large cats....

Date: 2019-04-01 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annonynous.livejournal.com
Ah hah. I thought it was a pair of harpies in heat.

Ann O. [g d & r]

Date: 2019-04-01 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] annonynous.livejournal.com
Catches throw n star and puts it in a pocket; never lets it fade away.

Ann O. :)

Date: 2019-03-31 07:34 am (UTC)
acelightning: the famous photo of Earth seen from space (Earth)
From: [personal profile] acelightning
It wouldn't let me read the article if I didn't buy a subscription to the magazine :-(

Date: 2019-03-31 03:56 pm (UTC)
bikergeek: cartoon bald guy with a half-smile (Default)
From: [personal profile] bikergeek
Have you used up your allotted number of free articles or something? Try deleting cookies or using your browser's "anonymous" or "incognito" mode.

Date: 2019-03-31 03:06 am (UTC)
potofsoup: (Default)
From: [personal profile] potofsoup
whoa, Hoosband was reading the same article today!

Date: 2019-03-31 09:37 am (UTC)
darkmarcy: John Colby of Chew (Happy things)
From: [personal profile] darkmarcy
This was a great read, thanks for the link!

Date: 2019-03-31 09:59 am (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Did you notice this from the other day?

https://cmcmck.dreamwidth.org/847541.html

Date: 2019-03-31 04:40 pm (UTC)
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)
From: [personal profile] mdlbear
Wow! I really want to see some of those papers.

Date: 2019-03-31 05:36 pm (UTC)
lynnenne: (life: pale blue dot)
From: [personal profile] lynnenne
Cool!

Date: 2019-04-01 12:32 am (UTC)
hitchhiker: image of "don't panic" towel with a rocketship and a 42 (Default)
From: [personal profile] hitchhiker
wow, fascinating indeed!

Date: 2019-04-01 05:00 pm (UTC)
vettecat: (Default)
From: [personal profile] vettecat
Wow, amazing! Thank you for sharing!

Date: 2019-04-06 09:45 am (UTC)
used_songs: (Default)
From: [personal profile] used_songs
This was great. I ended up reading a whole bunch of related articles and thinking about writing a fic.