SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
PALEONTOLOGY
Fossil sheds light on day that asteroid wiped out dinosaurs
Scientists believe they have been given an extraordinary view of the last day of the dinosaurs after they discovered the fossil of an animal they believe died that day.
The perfectly preserved leg, which includes remnants of skin, can be accurately dated to the time the asteroid that brought about the dinosaurs’ extinction struck Earth 66m years ago, experts say, because of the presence of debris from the impact.
“It’s absolutely bonkers,” said Phillip Manning, a professor of natural history at the University of Manchester. He told the BBC the
