June was probably a terrible month to be a dinosaur. Here's how we know.

This June, pour one out for the dinosaurs (via ConversationUS)

builds on earlier evidence to suggest the dinosaurs probably met their demise in June. The fact that researchers have been able to pinpoint the timing of an event that happened millions of years ago is a remarkable feat of science—but more on that later., located in the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. Tanis is one of several geological locations around the world where scientists have observed the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the succession of sediments.

The first was the presence of dinosaur fossils occurring in the Cretaceous sediments right up to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, and exactly at the boundary at the time of impact. We can imagine that as they floundered in the violently oscillating waters of the river channel, they could have swallowed melt spherules coming from above.that shook the Earth and caused water to flow in and out of the river channels at a fast rate, estimated as beginning one hour after the impact.

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