Archaeologists have been able to find evidence from a few years prior to the asteroid impact. Although they believe that the day the asteroid hit the earth, the dinosaurs were killed on the same day. The latest discovery may provide them with more information about this.
The BBC Said He is said to have spent three years at the Tanis Fossil Site. The scenes shot for the same will be telecast by the end of this month. The existence of Tanis, the claims made for it first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in the year 2019. published Had happened The team excavating the site has assured that more will come to the fore when the fossils are extracted and prepared.
The 12-km-wide asteroid is believed to have hit the present-day Gulf of Mexico, about 3,000 km from Tanis. Why the fossils are so well preserved at Tanis is a mystery. However, it should not be forgotten that the devastation caused by the asteroid had far-reaching effects.
Robert DePalma, a PhD student at the University of Manchester, who is leading the excavations at Tanis, has said that he has a lot of information about this site, which tells him what happened then.