Originally published at: Look at this astonishingly well-preserved leg of a dinosaur likely killed by an asteroid | Boing Boing
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Amazing how little has changed, all things considered.
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so not only were people around at the time, turtles were the first vampires?
and they care about the leg? sheesh
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Sure would be a kick in the pants if this dinosaur just happened to die of a heart attack minutes before the asteroid hit.
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We should be so lucky. Turns out some time travelers went to take it out and screwed up the 2016 election.
One lousy butterfly…
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It’s like Pompeii for dinosaurs.
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Thats not just the leg, its a dino Maryland.
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If T Rex had bigger arms he could have caught it.
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I had thought there was a lot of discussion regarding Tanis and whether it was actually buried in the moment of the impact. Has there been some more consensus then?
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Don’t jump to conclusions - the turtle could’ve been a Slayer that lost the fight.
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The dino didn’t really miss anything… and neither did the asteroid.
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When people say that the internet has lead to a dumbing down of the population, the earnest and enthusiastic academic debate evidenced in this thread surely proves them wrong 
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Are you aware that this meteorite thing that killed the Dinosaurs is not true ? The meteorite is true, and it probably killed a few, at the impact, but dinosaurs were declining and disappearing for more than 100 millions years before that. So your assomption that the meteorite killed 80% of the dinosaurs is not true at all, this is a belief that we know to be false for a few decades now
That’s not true at all. There has been a lot of debate about whether the dinosaurs were declining at the time of their extinction. From what I can tell the best evidence suggests no, except for certain subgroups, but there you can at least say some palaeontologists disagree.
Definitely though they were not disappearing for 100 million years. That would make the entire Cretaceous period a decline, ignoring the appearance of all sorts of new and successful groups – tyrannosaurids, abelisaurids, hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, pachycephalosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithomimids, dromaeosaurs, not to mention birds like the euornithines that survive to this day. If there was a decline it was just in the last few million years, the Maastrichtian, where however it also happens the fossil record is not as good.
And even if there is some decline in that last bit, it is not likely that so many different groups of dinosaurs and non-dinosaurs alike were all about to simultaneously disappear after lasting such an incredible length of time. Not without some major catastrophe.
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We’re a special bunch.
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