First fossil bed from the dinosaur extinction event itself

by Laura Domela

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When an asteroid hit the Earth around 66 million years ago, it wiped out almost 75 percent of the plants and animals on the planet. All dinosaurs, except those that would eventually give rise to modern birds, were killed following the impact. Yet despite such a vast die-off, no bone bed containing a concentration of fossils as a result of this event has been found. But in a quarry behind a small township in New Jersey, a theory is forming that this might be exactly what has been unearthed.
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photo credit: The fossil bed is located in an old, disused quarry in New Jersey. Rowan University

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