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Astonishingly, DePalma found these glassy spherules at the site, and also in the gills of sturgeon fossils that occupied the Tanis streams. He believes the spherules were produced by the Chicxulub ...
Tanis has yielded wonderful fossils of dinosaurs, early mammals, fish, ... the researchers found abundant spherules in the gill skeletons of some of the fish they examined.
Illustration: Artistic reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules ...
At Tanis, spherules, also called tektites, were covered with clay but had a glass core. Caught in the gills (Image credit: Courtesy of Robert DePalma) ...
More than 50 percent of the freshwater fish at Tanis died with tiny glass balls called spherules embedded in their gills; in fact, the site was riddled with spherules ranging in diameter from 0.01 ...
The existence of Tanis, and the claims made for it, first emerged in the public sphere in the New Yorker Magazine in 2019.This caused a furore at the time. Science usually demands the initial ...
“We’re never going to say with 100 percent certainty that this leg came from an animal that died on that day,” the scientist said. “The thing we can do is determine the likelihood that it ...
A dig site at Tanis has proven to be a landmine of archaeological evidence about the day the asteroid hit Earth. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF APRIL 9, 2022 00:10 Updated: APRIL 9, 2022 11:32 ...
Illustration: Artistic reconstruction by Joschua Knüppe of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules ...
The existence of Tanis, and the claims made for it, first emerged in the public sphere in the New Yorker Magazine in 2019, external.This caused a furore at the time. Science usually demands the ...
The Tanis team thinks it very likely did, given the limb's position in the dig sediments. If that is the case, it would be quite the discovery. But Prof Steve Brusatte from University of Edinburgh ...